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I think this is mostly due to the increasing complexity of modern informational society – and the failure of information processors like the New York Times to l

I think this is mostly due to the increasing complexity of modern informational society – and the failure of information processors like the New York Times to live up to their supposed roles. Reading the news today, nothing adds up to a coherent whole. It’s just chaos, opinion pieces, emotional reporting, and outright propaganda. I don’t blame the average person for becoming cognitively overloaded by all of this and then feeling lost, unable to think, and unable to order their memories into a logical narrative that explains the world.

jstarfish 3y ago
Lately it's been feeling to me like we live in a theocratic hellscape. Like, so much of our "life" occurs on a plane of existence that doesn't actually exist. It's all virtual. Fake worlds! Fake relationships! Fake money! (Fake news!). Then we have to reconcile that with the reality we live in. We might as well be living according to the arbitrary whims of God all over again. The rules change arbitrarily; systems that work predictably one day get silently updated overnight to overhaul everything from the business logic to the interface itself. God willed it! Making it worse, it's bureaucratic beyond comprehension. I have weeks at work where I don't even know what my job even is. I could write some code, I guess. Deploying it is going to require interacting with a number of teams to beg for provisioning, credentials, firewall exceptions, etc. I have to ask this from people I haven't seen in so long they might as well be NPCs in a scripted loop. I don't even know if they still manage whatever it is I need. This isn't even my job, it's just what I need to do in support of my actual job, since nobody can just have one role anymore. We're supposed to have faith that God/tech will provide. Robots were supposed to do difficult or dangerous work so we could live a life of leisure! But instead tech is eliminating the unskilled jobs. There's no time for mental breakdowns. The cracks are starting to show. Life feels too much like I'm trying to multiclass in four different MMOs while fending off real-life pickpockets and patching holes in the roof-- all at the same time.

jstarfish 3y ago

Lately it's been feeling to me like we live in a theocratic hellscape. Like, so much of our "life" occurs on a plane of existence that doesn't actually exist. It's all virtual. Fake worlds! Fake relationships! Fake money! (Fake news!). Then we have to reconcile that with the reality we live in. We might as well be living according to the arbitrary whims of God all over again. The rules change arbitrarily; systems that work predictably one day get silently updated overnight to overhaul everything from the business logic to the interface itself. God willed it! Making it worse, it's bureaucratic beyond comprehension. I have weeks at work where I don't even know what my job even is. I could write some code, I guess. Deploying it is going to require interacting with a number of teams to beg for provisioning, credentials, firewall exceptions, etc. I have to ask this from people I haven't seen in so long they might as well be NPCs in a scripted loop. I don't even know if they still manage whatever it is I need. This isn't even my job, it's just what I need to do in support of my actual job, since nobody can just have one role anymore. We're supposed to have faith that God/tech will provide. Robots were supposed to do difficult or dangerous work so we could live a life of leisure! But instead tech is eliminating the unskilled jobs. There's no time for mental breakdowns. The cracks are starting to show. Life feels too much like I'm trying to multiclass in four different MMOs while fending off real-life pickpockets and patching holes in the roof-- all at the same time.