Thoughts on Media
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Black Mirror
Does technology amplify the ugliest aspects of humanity, or merely reveal them?
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The Information Diet
You are what your brain eats.
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Within The Context of No Context
We sign contracts with our attention, the terms of which we haven't read.
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Eating the Dinosaur
As a species, we have never been less human than we are right now.
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True Enough
Due to flaws in our perception and the money to be made by exploiting them, you have to work really hard to live in the real world nowadays, so most of us don't.
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Mediated
Life is a supermarket.
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Amusing Ourselves to Death
To *muse* is to think, and just as to be amoral is to be not moral, to be amused is to be not thinking. Of the media we consume, how much of it is designed to get us thinking, and how much is designed to amuse us?