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If you're reading this tweet, you're playing the Great Online Game.
The Game is played concurrently by billions of people, online, as themselves, with real-world consequences.
The downsides are limited; the upside is infinite.
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Packy McCormickx.comWe can always opt out of this arrangement, of course, and live happily in meatspace, but that is precisely the point: Offline we exist by default; online we have to post our way into selfhood.
Drew Austin • #162: Minimum Viable Self
To be offline is akin to not existing in this day and age.
In real life, the success or failure of each individual performance often plays out in the form of concrete, physical action—you get invited over for dinner, or you lose the friendship, or you get the job. Online, performance is mostly arrested in the nebulous realm of sentiment, through an unbroken stream of hearts and likes and eyeballs, aggregat
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