brypto

It’s midnight on a Sunday, and I’m watching a video about a president who wants to put every aspect of their country onchain, and believed a memecoin was the perfect trial. 

There’s a Debordesque inevitability to how power, technology, and attention coalesced here. The same structures of control now covered by a veneer of innovation sheen and cultural distraction. Same trick, different props. 

We’re just dressing up stupid things in techno-cultural novelty to kid ourselves that this isn’t just some misadventure while absolving ourselves from being part of the spectacle that is driving the same old predictable cycles of hype, manipulation, control and extraction.

It’s midnight on a Sunday, and I’m watching a video about a president who wants to put every aspect of their country onchain, and believed a memecoin was the perfect trial. 

There’s a Debordesque inevitability to how power, technology, and attention coalesced here. The same structures of control now covered by a veneer of innovation sheen and cultural distraction. Same trick, different props. 

We’re just dressing up stupid things in techno-cultural novelty to kid ourselves that this isn’t just some misadventure while absolving ourselves from being part of the spectacle that is driving the same old predictable cycles of hype, manipulation, control and extraction.


https://youtu.be/EqizJTbxAEM?si=IcaSPkJQPrm89fJf

Researcher at MIT Media Lab | Creating futures | https://cyrus.website/info

Society's obsession with technology and distraction is driving us towards predictable cycles of manipulation and control