I hate the injection of personality into technological instances or common hiccups in modern Internet culture. My heart monitor watch shows me a smiley face while booting up, Github buttons spam "Buy me a coffee!", Reddit says shit like, "Don't panic" when a webpage doesn't load. Shut the fuck up and leave me alone. I am so tired of being surrounded by these pale imitations of reality, like I need to be pacified with pseudo-emotions or meme culture every step of my day.

  • LeninsRage [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    I think this was kind of the central point of Society of the Spectacle, in that working people become so alienated by mass media and mass consumption that they become unable to actually relate with each other save through the middleman of spectacular commodity. See also my rant about social media elsewhere in this thread. But also how in current moment our go-to conversations with co-workers usually aren't about things that matter, like grievances against the boss, planning things to do outside of worker, or discussing political issues; it's the Game Last Night, or superhero movies, or the last episode of Game of Thrones, or which epic memes you've seen lately, or the last crazy thing Trump said on Twitter.