Just because some deliberately pursue dark pattern addictive design doesn’t mean they’re solely or even primarily responsible. Vultures eat carrion. The enabling factor is alienation/isolation. Cf Cat Person. That will manifest *no matter how well-intentioned the design* 2/2
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I find it interesting to look at where movements are tinged by "wholesomeness" and then to consider whether there is a taboo operating and what would happen if the taboo were broken
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So for example there is the taboo against addiction but also a taboo against the loss of individual identity, and what would happen if we simply joyfully accept being egoless nodes in a matrix of intense electro-dopaminergic stimulation
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