we are shaped by our tools, systems, and environment
by Agalia Tan · updated 10d ago
we are shaped by our tools, systems, and environment
by Agalia Tan · updated 10d ago
Not only do we tend to rewrite our memories according to the narratives we believe in at the moment, we are also easily influenced by word choices e.g. using the phrase ‘a car that zoomed past’ versus ‘a car that drove past’ can cause us to believe different things.
Memory is less so a recording or a catalogue, but more like vapour.
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The speed of our forward motion is directly related to the velocity of the people around us
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“in this version though, a lot of your story is written by others. You write your autofiction about yourself and others write their fictions about you, often anonymously, on Substacks, subreddits, messageboards like Lolcow, on Twitter and Instagram and podcasts too, and this makes things different from what has come before. The lives of these perso
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The same systems that empower us also subject us
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