I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom
The internet reminds us on a daily basis that it is not at all rewarding to become aware of problems that you have no reasonable hope of solving. And, more important, the internet already is what it is. It has already become the central organ of contemporary life. It has already rewired the brains of its users, returning us to a state of primitive
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You describe the digital as "an implacable engine of addiction, loneliness, false hope, cruelty, psychosis, indebtedness, squandered life, the corrosion of memory and social disintegration. All of it its touted benefits are rendered irrelevant or secondary by its injurious and sociocidal impacts"... My intention wasn't to point the finger of blame
... See morehomepages. This confusion is the sign of an unresolved relationship, a love triangle that seems to have come undone in our modern times: a relationship drama where citizens, institutions and experts seem unable to communicate. While institutions might trust experts, they seem wary of us, of our emotional stability. Not even experts, truth be told,
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OASIS had evolved into something horrible. “It had become a self-imposed prison for humanity,” he wrote. “A pleasant place for the world to hide from its problems while human civilization slowly collapses, primarily due to neglect.”