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It’s only on platforms where controversy and drama are prioritized for driving engagement where we’re rewarded for despising each other.
Inexpensive and user-friendly digital tools for manipulating text, images and sounds — think Photoshop or GarageBand — have dramatically broadened access to the means of cultural production and blurred the lines between amateurs and professionals. But the question is not just how many people engage in cultural production — it’s how people engage.
... See moreIt’s become something of a sport to unearth these sorts of replies, the ones where strangers make willfully decontextualized moral judgments on other people’s lives. We give these people and these kinds of conversations names: “chronically online” or “terminally online,” implying that too much exposure to too many people’s weird ideas makes us all
... See moreThis was what personal style was to me in 2008: a cipher for something much broader, a glimpse into the lives of others.
Character is gone, because eccentricity is harder to duplicate and sell in bulk.

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