/lit/ - Literature

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>>22827385
You need a small group of smart friends, not midwit e-acquaintances. The internet used to be replete with a myriad of such small, likeminded communities, but it is far too profitable a tool to exclude the unintelligent masses. Eternal September and all. So you just have to be a lot more deliberate in cultivating the right type of people.

I agree, though, the massive political /pol/arization post-2016 is so fucking exhausting. The majority of people follow one of a severely limited selection of leaders and dogmas, unable to think for themselves. They may have never been able to think for themselves, but at least before they followed less annoying shit that didn't inevitably permeate every aspect of their life and social interaction. But hey, that's what you get by focusing on (and thereby entrenching and legitimizing) identity politics instead of economics as the purview of the state.

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Checked. The technological extensions of man have changed him. We are a different organism when connected at light speed, yet technology is still thought of as merely tools. No, we are in fact cybernetic beings who have offloaded our mental, social, and labor capabilities to centralized, unaccountable black boxes.