From empowering harassers to swinging elections, it's an afterthought that they absolutely 100% do not want to deal with, especially coming from their specific brand of libertarian tech bro thinking. They'd rather just keep encroaching.
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Anyone who goes to take a poop without their phone these days will suddenly realize the shocking reality of not being engaged and just having to sit and think.
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Sure we sometimes had magazines, but it's a simple action we have had to do so many times before with the stark change now staring us in the face. It is the terror of being alone with our own thoughts.
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I do not evoke this from a place of judgement. It is a place I know far too fucking well. My thoughts can cycle through and haunt me. We are ALL facing this. But we all know that the bigger price comes in constantly running away.
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Which brings the metaphor full circle: we choose disruption because the alternative is simply being with pain. And we hope the next disruption is a joyful antidote to that pain.
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And it all coils into an infinitely closing loop, moving faster and faster, until a singular state of paralysis, ever eating it up, ever consuming the product.
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I don't have a solution... for I am perpetually disrupted.
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