Saved by Keely Adler
I Don’t Need to Be a ‘Good Person.’ Neither Do You.
Being regarded as authentic is a function of others’ evaluation of your performance. But if everything is in upheaval, then those others doing the evaluating have few points of reference. Because the network society is global in character, identity is constantly being contested and threatened from all sides. The freedom of the paranoid, just like t
... See moreDavid A. Banks • The City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America
Life has gotten very chaotic incredibly quickly. It has become increasingly difficult to parse anything from the static. People started coping with this lack of meaning through a kind of ironic detachment (which is very much still around), but it has matured into a pervasive cultural apathy, a permeating numbness. This isn’t nihilism per se. (Even ... See more
Catherine Shannon • Everyone Is Numbing Out
All across our culture, you’ll find people eager to abandon the fundamental task of our lives, fostering and maintaining human connection, so that they can fall deeper into a pit of hedonistic distraction forever. You send an email a large language model wrote for you to spare yourself a minute of mental activity at the end of a long day working fr... See more
Freddie DeBoer • You Are You. We Live Here. This Is Now.
In fact, our senses have become overwhelmed by this bombardment of easy-to-access, seemingly endless supply of quick-fix pleasures.