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- I feel bad for anyone who has sincerely written the words “looking for a real connection” in their lifetime.
- If you want to destroy the subversive power of a movement — co-opt it, subtly transform it into a brand, promote it. “Pride week” is a good example.
- We are held captive by visual noise: consciousness is arrested, imprisoned, by a constant flow of inputs — multivalent, swarming, omnipotent. The old stream-of-conscious has been swallowed up by the river-of-consciousness: the Internet.
- Our civilization promotes togetherness, produces loneliness.
- The earth we have destroyed will be remembered on Instagram as a nice tourist attraction.
- Great works of art are memories of a better world.
- Algorithms destroy morality, which is to say: they destroy the ability to choose.
