Yea consumerism has ppl in a serious chokehold
And they too dumb to realize it. Numb and dumb, thats what they want you to be
Drug legalization
Food delivery
Debt
Gambling
Dating apps
Social media
All these algorithms
All designed to handicap or take away our ability and desire to put any conscious effort into anything. Like you said taking away the human experience. And AI one of if not the final domino
It's made just walking outside seem like some impossible or unique task to people who live like that.
Great sentence. No provoking thought, no sitting with your own thoughts, no ability to see the world beyond an app/an algorithim.
I read a piece the other day and it was saying how platform based apps intentionally and by design hide the amount of work and network involved, to conceal the labor, the cost, the time, the whatever into getting you a sushi dinner at 6:30 delivered to your house. The consumer sees nothing.
Doesn't see the labor of parking, of rushing around on an app, trying to find the place, the 24 next deliveries. I saw a woman delivering Amazon with her young son yesterday. That shyt was a little rough. I let her in the building. The consumer was just assuming she'd find her way into the gated building, find the right elevator. That's a fukking person.
but when you go to a brick and mortar place, you don't see everything, but you see the hostess, see the server, sometimes the chefs, the line cooks, the busers.
fukk y'all..
... it's the evolution of social dynamics and "mate selection" is within the main variables that do have large ripple effects. Like it or not. All the wars and conquering in some capacity or another had the players with some sort of desire to "impress" the opposite sex through some demonstration of power.
