Thought that’s been lurking in my subconscious for a few months now.
While there is merit to the “addictive social media UX” campaign/program of and others, there is also a danger that it might inadvertently trigger the digital equivalent to the war on drugs 1/2
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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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If I get what you’re saying, what would it look like to try to intervene closer to the root cause of alienation/isolation?
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It’s isomorphic to both the inequality and automation-ate-my-job problems. So whatever it takes to solve those.
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No, history doesn’t repeat itself. At best it rhymes. Classical leftism is intellectually bankrupt for dealing with this go round. I actually think a round of religious movements will appear. That is a more robust response.
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I wouldn’t be as quick to lay all the blame for what has and hasn’t worked on the left, tho it’s true it hasn’t come up with sufficient response to capitalism and imperialism. But moving on, does that mean the Enlightenment is over?
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The enlightenment ended with high modernism in the 1920s. We’re coming out of a ~100 year postmodern period, aka 100 years of not knowing wtf is going on. Otherwise we’d have come up with a better term for it than ‘postmodern’
Perhaps best described as “the time of the William Gibson novels”
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