Jia Tolentino: My Brain Finally Broke. “The phone eats time; it makes us live the way people do inside a casino” and with IRL current events like Trump & Gaza, “a chill sets in at some point, then a grimness, then a detachment”. Yes, all of this.
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That lingering sense of unreality is all too familiar. There's this feeling that the fabric of existence itself is fraying at the edges.
Were I only a bit more prone to delusion, I could be convinced that the paper tape of our universal turing machine is worn beyond repair and we're glitching our way toward termination. Computable at long last.
And is it worth me saying “Yes, I agree with the thinking in this piece” when most of us here probably do? I’ll say it anyway, just in case another person needs somehow to see it.
Whenever I’ll mention that I use an app to block the internet for several hours at a time, I’ll hear the ol’ “Oh, but you have to be aware of what’s happening in the world!” Well, no shit, but I don’t have to keep my lips glued to a damn fire hose to stay hydrated either.
My response to that is always that if something really big happens, I know someone will text or call me about it. 🤷🏻♀️ Everything else can wait.
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