You're Not Bad, You're Just Influenced That Way
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You're Not Bad, You're Just Influenced That Way
The consumer culture encourages individuals to want more—cars, larger homes, television sets, cell phones, gadgets of all kinds—and positive thinking is ready at hand to tell them they deserve more and can have it if they really want it and are willing to make the effort to get it.
Barbara Ehrenreich • Bright-sided: How Positive Thinking is Undermined America
Confronting questions:
Which of my current views would change if my incentives were different?
Which of my current views would I disagree with if I were born in a different country or generation?
What do I think is true but is actually just good marketing?
What do I ignore because it’s too painful to accept?
Who has the right answers but I ignore b
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 f
... See moreFreddie deBoer • You Are You. We Live Here. This is Now.
METALABEL: You made a short video for the album that has a line I can’t stop thinking about: “Sometimes it feels like your house is a store and your life is a job.” Can you talk about that feeling?
CLAIRE : It's something we talk about a lot. The more you notice it in the world around you, the more real it feels. It speaks to the fact that as indiv... See more
CLAIRE : It's something we talk about a lot. The more you notice it in the world around you, the more real it feels. It speaks to the fact that as indiv... See more