I'm Increasingly Resistant to New Things

[vimothy]

Awesome.

*awful

 

[constant escape]

I was more just proud of us, for putting it together like that. Awful indeed.

 

[luka]

is this relevant?

 

[constant escape]

I don't know, are you resistant to enjoying your own company?

 

[luka]

some times. more so than i used to be. you can get tired of yourself.

 

[luka]

but i also like coming across these avatars of social media. it makes me think of the stuff you lot were talking about. people shaped by the algorithim.

 

[luka]

its easy to imagine it that way. with these avatars of social media. that the inert clay has been squeezed and shaped and plucked and pinched into these forms by the medium itself

 

[constant escape]

Yeah its like their feet are calcifed to their platform, such that were they end and the platform begins is vague.

 

[constant escape]

its easy to imagine it that way. with these avatars of social media. that the inert clay has been squeezed and shaped and plucked and pinched into these forms by the medium itself

A bit worrisome to think that this is perhaps what the ultimate cosmopolitan youth would be.

 

[constant escape]

Citizen of the world. Influencer of the world.

 

[luka]

maybe we should have a thread for very fine examples

 

[constant escape]

Who here would be the scout(s)?

 

[luka]

when you find a really good one can post it. like, look at this guy hes perfect! anyone could stumble on a perfect specimen

 

[constant escape]

Influential Specimens

edit: alternatively, Young Lovelies

 

[luka]

its funny though isnt it like people have brains. i used to love social media cos it was so good as a mischief platform. you can do all sorts of trouble making on these sites. cant be too reductive about it like they just program us to be their robots but maybe they do

 

[constant escape]

Well we can always piece together convincing reasoning, otherwise people wouldn't do it, yet alone billions of people. I think what is frightening about it is that it completely brackets the whole spectrum of pathos and operates beyond it. So you can be drawn to it for a number of reasons, making any of many lines of convincing reasoning. Its like we are learning to willfully steer the certain physiological or neurochemical mechanisms that have largely remained independent of our will.

 

[luka]

theres a real link to stuff like focus groups too. advance screenings of films which lead to reshooting. change the ending. audiences dont like it.

 

[constant escape]

Yeah its like that basic screening mechanism is being automated and integrated into the virtual social fabric.

 

[luka]

"Earlier, you see, the Symbolists had discovered that the work of art is a programmed teaching machine. It’s a mechanism for shaping sensibility. Well, Lewis simply extended this private art activity into the corporate activity of the whole society in making environments that basically were artifacts or works of art and that acted as teaching machines upon the whole population."

 

[shiels]

C s Lewis is my cousin