Molly
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Molly
“whether I should or shouldn’t be eating in a given moment, whether I’ve completed my nutritional goals for the day, whether I’ve had enough vitamins, whether I’ve had enough water, whether I’m even hungry or if I’m overthinking it.”
Glitch Gothic and Prom Optimism
Americans are talking — out loud, to other humans — significantly less than they used to, with the steepest drop among people under 25. A recent study found that between 2005 and 2019, the average person’s daily spoken word count fell 28%, from about 16,600 words to under 12,000 — roughly 330 fewer words spoken per day each year, or 120,000 fewer... See more
Glitch Gothic and Prom Optimism
In some corners of the Internet there’s a fascination with traditionalism, and criticism of the ways the openness and optionality of modernity have left people feeling lost. I’ve always felt like, look, I could never be a traditionalist, because I don’t want to give birth to five kids without anesthesia and spend half of my day cleaning up around... See more
Main Character Syndrome Part 2
It’s Narcissus mesmerized by his own reflection: you’d rather watch yourself looking good than actually live.
We’re wired for small, close-knit communities, but instead we’re lost in the chaos of a massive, impersonal society. It’s no wonder we’re struggling—this isn’t the environment we were built for. The cracks are everywhere. Just scroll through social media or read the comments on a political post, and you’ll see it: a storm of anger, hostility, and... See more
Poetic Outlaws • The Comfortable Life Is Killing You
However, when a profit-driven, materially-oriented, and hyper-individualistic society finds itself incompatible with our inherent psychological makeup, those needs are simply replaced with artificial and distorted needs (consumerism, hedonism, cosmetic perfectionism, recognition, hyper-productivity, entertainment escapism etc). The result in doing... See more
They Convinced you to Love Yourself So you’d Forget to Respect Yourself
One Gen Z writer even declared that Hannah’s infamous “I am the voice of my generation” line reflects “the low-key narcissistic confidence and romanticizing of life so many Gen Zers express on TikTok.”
Loafer Yawns and Millennial Apologists
I think Girls is more popular now because people are getting more annoying. I hate to say it, but as a generation we’re more annoying than millennials because we’re self-aware, but we continue to act the way we do.”
Loafer Yawns and Millennial Apologists
A Facebook group called Baddies in AI, geared toward women who are using A.I. to either augment their own social-media presence or create entirely new figures from scratch, has more than three hundred thousand members.
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“we’re in a global and culturewide crisis of meaning, in which manufactured realities exert pressure on the real world and we’re being manipulated more constantly and efficiently by social media than ever before while also being more conscious than we’ve ever been of that manipulation as it’s taking place.”