identity & perception
social media incentivizes us to craft consumable personas, to prioritize surface-level aesthetic experiences over privately-held and deeply-felt emotional ones, to run on envy and memetic desire and competitive self-optimization, to buy things in order to better sell ourselves
- from “Poser ethic” by Rayne Fisher-Quann on Substack.
if it’s possible that one can write critically about aesthetic optimization as a way of continuing to worship it while establishing plausible distance.
- from “Poser ethic” by Rayne Fisher-Quann on Substack.
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