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One of the reasons that scrolling social media can make life feel a little “flat” is that it takes time for your attention to fully cohere, so if you are switching focus too rapidly, you never reach fully integrated attention. Part of your attention is still trying to cohere around the thing you saw a moment ago. And different systems of your body ... See more

To call someone ‘inauthentic’ assumes you have a ruler for measuring what is and isn't genuine. But doesn’t this act of measuring make people twist themselves into whatever seems real?

I find this obsession with discerning the authentic from the inauthentic the least authentic thing of all