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Imagine going to a concert and everyone sees their favorite artist sing their favorite song!
Feel alone together! Share nothing! Experience nothing new! Never leave your bubble! Make Howard Hughes look like a fucking amateur!
Join with the torment nexus!
There is this one old school sci fy story where all of humanity just lives in their room and they all just share and prepare lectures about the things they enjoy and literally never leave their rooms. Everything is run by a machine. Nobody ever leaves their room they’re just constantly preparing lectures on various subjects or watching other people’s lectures. I sadly can’t remember what it’s called . It’s good and kinda the direction that the world is going it
If you ever remember the name I'd love to read this one. It seems like a very good description of social media today.
Found it for you: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops
It predicts the social media age incredibly well
Thank you!
No problem it’s a quick read as well
I read it. Oh my... to think this is from 1909 if I understood correctly. The bit about "beware of first-hand ideas" at the end chilled me to the bone, it was so "the times we live in".
Yeah I read it a year ago and there have been a lot of joints and booze in that time to make my memory fuzzy but I did autistically tell every one about it and how they should read it.
He was friends with the dude who wrote this: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/edward-carpenter-civilisation-its-cause-and-cure
I also want to read that because I kinda see civilisation as a curse as well.
But ya so much stuff to read and my focus is just getting worse and worse as I grow older. Plus if you have an inquisitive mind you’ll probably end up having similar thoughts to other people as well.