6. The Internet is Insane

The internet has been the closest thing to a Pandora's Box that humanity has created. Here I attempt to draw threads between it and the rest of my ideas. Not only is it insane, I think that it makes us insane.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/06/the-internet-is-a-collective-hallucination/619320/

• #to/read should process this more fully, but I don't have an atlantic subscription.
  • The part I did read reminds me of 20220419224911-Digital-witchcraft

20220527224440-The-Tiny-Web:

I saw a video of #people/Hank_Green's a while ago where he referred to our modern day internet, the part that most people experience, as the "social internet". I think that this is the part of the internet most people refer to when they talk about the "dead internet" theory; 6.f The dead internet theory feels real.

Contrast with 6.a The (anti)social internet.

Crossings

• X:: 1.b1 I hate DoorDash
• X:: 3. Millennials are weird
• X:: 3.a The narwhal bacons at midnight
• X:: 4.c The procrastination principle
• X:: 5.a It's hard to be vulnerable in public
• X:: 5.a1 Posting ennui is the new normal