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I think the really crazy thing about the online world is the separation of all the different spaces and the alienation that comes as a result.
In the real world, it's physical space. You gotta go through the city to get anywhere, see other people and see the world (even if it's only a tiny slice of it). The people around you necessarily have similar experiences because you're in the same physical space.
Online, though, everyone can be isolated into a completely abstract Skinner box of dopamine shots administered at the frequency of their choosing. Your experience is your own, and only your own, with interactions with other people made as atomizing as possible by various mechanisms. People have to be consciously reminded that the people they talk with online are real humans behind a screen, because otherwise it really is just a sea of usernames vomiting text and media.
The online world is so effective at atomizing its users that they forget there even is a society, it just becomes niche subcultures where other individuals are barely even perceived.
It adds this whole other dimension to interacting with strangers; yes, the bulk of us are all terminally online -- but what sort of terminally online are you?
Sonder but for everyone's individualized internet brainworms
This should’ve been the post. Much more eloquent and concise than I could ever be
you're posting in the big leagues now
Ngl bro this awareness I had at like 12 AM (which brought about this post) feels like class consciousness on steroids
Like good god we are so fucking cooked
It just really fucking terrifies me because I wake up and get on either my phone or my computer
How far away are we from waking up and putting on our digital headsets to go to work or our Apple Vision Pro to escape from the reality of a decayed material world
This is why good memeing is so important. You gotta get things shared and incorporated into adjacent skinner boxes communal identity.