Screenshot Essays

Very Internet Person

"Want to match my freak? Reality shift into another dimension? Schizo-post your way to internet-sanctioned brainwashing? Nowadays, it’s not a matter of what exists, but what you choose to exist as. A recent report suggests that Gen Z don’t bother to fact-check information they see online, instead choosing to believe what like-minded peers or trusted influencers say – basically, what they see as important. Plugged into our personal psy-opticons we create our own mental maps to justify our own narratives, like Terrance McKenna’s ‘self-transforming’ machine elves on a DMT trip. It’s not a cosmic jump, then, to feel like everything is a psyop, everyone is a crisis actor."

kind of a depressing but accurate essay about our increasingly hypersimulated "realities". enjoy!

https://www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture/article/63208/1/why-does-nothing-feel-real-anymore-donald-trump-prada

baudrillard vindicated 

"As for the increasingly horrific genocidal images that flood our screens, these are juxtaposed with thirst traps and shitposts, which shine a cruel light on the role that technology plays in dehumanising real crises, turning them into a narrative, a video-game lore, that feeds the entertainment industrial complex through clicks and engagement."

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