I'm currently too frazzled to come up with anything coherent, but the phrase "New Transparency" keeps coming to mind when I think about tech and social media atm. There's something about the way people are now willingly putting what feel like full psychological and ideological profiles of themselves in just their Twitter bio whilst the people and systems running things and even the platforms themselves become increasingly opaque and inscrutable that strikes me as incredibly insidious: the illusion of a transparent society where the transparency only ever goes one way.
I guess this could have been tacked onto one of several threads we've already got going, but I think it's something of a phenomenon in its own right. These platforms are encouraging people to empty themselves to the point where I wonder whether there will come a time when we lose the sense of what an inner life once was.
That excerpt I posted about the octopus wearing its thoughts may actually be happening in some sense.
I guess this could have been tacked onto one of several threads we've already got going, but I think it's something of a phenomenon in its own right. These platforms are encouraging people to empty themselves to the point where I wonder whether there will come a time when we lose the sense of what an inner life once was.
That excerpt I posted about the octopus wearing its thoughts may actually be happening in some sense.