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Very little. This has been an ongoing process, it's called modernity. It's the evaporation of reality due to mass media and commoditization. It's a reductive pr
by trgn 4y ago
Very little. This has been an ongoing process, it's called modernity. It's the evaporation of reality due to mass media and commoditization. It's a reductive process that turns actual people into widgets, the adaptation of man to machine. Human relations, since these cannot be quantitied, are transmuted into transactions that can be measured, quantitied, monetized. Affection, intimacy, loyalty thus become replqced by countable things like swipes, nft drops, car infotainment packages, yoga cruise experiences, ...
The matrix is real. Not that we are living in a computer (thats just stupid), but that we are being reduced to particiption in algorithm, mere conduits of information.
That malaise, hard to pinpoint but ongoing since 150 years, is the driver of the social recession
- DiggyJohnson 4y agoI genuinely fail to see how social media does not fit perfectly into the description of mass media commoditization in modernity.
- trgn 4y agoFor sure, it fits into it, apologies if I gave the impression it didn't.