Content
@
0 reply
0 recast
0 reaction
elle
@riotgoools
"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
5 replies
5 recasts
40 reactions
buffets
@buffets
I guess it boils down to how we want to exercise our individual agency—whether we want to be aware of the multilayered and multidimensional social contexts that we inhabit, and develop an ability to adjust our actions based on them. E.g. I've been on the road travelling for the past 2.5 months and have never felt more disconnected from the simulacra of the online world; the latter also has limited bearing or utility for my physical travels. Yet, I've been chronically online prior to this, and I still enjoy lurking on the Internet when time and WiFi access permits—especially since I still get most of my intellectual simulation online, being in a place where I don't speak the native tongue. Ultimately, the human condition has always been a sum of multiple realities, and the beauty of it all is being able to recognise them and travel between them—not letting oneself remain the proverbial frog in the well.
1 reply
0 recast
2 reactions
elle
@riotgoools
yep, i just wrote a similar thought in the below reply to someone else and in some other comments on the subject at the end of the day, whether the simulacra exists or not doesn't really affect the workings of the universe. it just either aggravates or entertains the human mind if u let it (⌒_⌒;) https://warpcast.com/riotgoools/0x54f36d22
0 reply
0 recast
1 reaction
