One problem with the 2019 political moment is that you don't get cultural or technological progress by trying to make everyone care a tiny bit about literally everything. That's a great way to induce a deeply confusing & virtually inescapable depressive miasma, but not much else
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Bit of a tangent here, but have we not noticed the total consumerization of activism? Everything has to be about "raising awareness," because "awareness" is an exercise in pure consumption — and everyone is too cowed, insecure or lazy to take on the responsibility of generativity
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I wish I had wiki level culture ;)
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Is there a tech solution to overload, or we collectively going through a difficult learning curve how to filter out the BS? Leaning towards the latter.
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The learning curve is for us collectively to demand software that helps us filter out what we want, not just accept whatever fb/twitter/google decides will make us click more ads
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Mixed feelings, but it is indeed exhausting
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