Content claims to reflect reality, but reality is defined by what gains visibility online. That visibility shapes behavior, which generates more content, reinforcing what was visible in the first place.
Each step makes sense on its own, but the whole thing becomes self-validating, with no clear anchor outside the loop.
We’re having conversations on the Internet we used to have in class or even at dinner that we stopped having because of speech codes. Other than the popular culture driven vulgarity being seemingly required all that has happened is candor returned.
Admittedly this isn’t optimal but it is certainly adaptation.
This is basically an Escher hyperstructure.
Content claims to reflect reality, but reality is defined by what gains visibility online. That visibility shapes behavior, which generates more content, reinforcing what was visible in the first place.
Each step makes sense on its own, but the whole thing becomes self-validating, with no clear anchor outside the loop.
If your life centers around media consumption, then of course you’re just binary canon fodder.
Local TV channels are no longer watched
We’re having conversations on the Internet we used to have in class or even at dinner that we stopped having because of speech codes. Other than the popular culture driven vulgarity being seemingly required all that has happened is candor returned.
Admittedly this isn’t optimal but it is certainly adaptation.