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Anybody else here feel that "real life" (i.e. the material, non-digital / virtual world) is increasingly "cringe"?

It feels like reality is turning into a mixture of an industrial wasteland (e.g. warehouses for supplies), characterless living zones, and a kind of Ye Olde fake tourist town to desperately attract people there from the internet.

I've been reading some literary biographies recently (H.P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Philip K. Dick, etc) and one thing they all have in common is how energetic and interconnected the real world was. Like, if they were interested in literature they could go to a store in town and find magazines related to that niche, or they could correspond with or join an existing literary community dedicated to that niche, whose members lived in various parts of the country. When they submitted work for publication, their rejections were not cold and impersonal, but rather encouraging and full of advice etc. It feels like the world I am reading about has been neutered, lobotomized, or hollowed out. Where before there were hundreds of invisible strands in a person's life connecting them with others and with the world in general, it feels like the internet has pretty much reduced the number of strands to the minimum amount. There is no energy in real life any more.

People talk about neoliberalism, mass migration etc as having a massive influence on social relations and contributing to the atomisation of society, but I can't help but feel that there is something in the future that is sucking us towards it from the real (or even from the spiritual, per da gnooostics), via the digital, into the virtual, etc.

Are there any books on these issues?

>> No.21631092

Unironically go touch grass.

>> No.21631149

>>21631088
unironically read ted kaczynski

the systems overtaking us

machine growth spreads and spreads

tumultuous tendrils of concentrated plastic filth

the fog is coming the fog is coming

>> No.21631154
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>>21631088
Right here, although it presents it as desirable and is uncritical of it.

>> No.21631170

>>21631154
Right-wingers kvetch a lot about the WEF and Schwab but they can never properly articulate what exactly is the problem with the vision they present and the reason why is that the vision they present is actually the logical conclusion to globalized liberal capitalism.

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>>21631088
Lovecraft's letter to his neighbour. I don't even know my neighbours.

>> No.21631294

>>21631171
Cute cats. Thanks for reminding me I should read about an author’s personal life myself instead of accepting whichever bullshit people say about him on the net. I thought Lovecraft was just some neurotic loser on his day to day, but a man has to have some goodness in him to draw cats like these for his neighbour’s delight.
Fuck, writing letters seems so comfy. There’s no space for contemplation and no care for your words when an unlimited amount of instantaneous messages is at the palm of your hand.

>> No.21631371

>>21631171
>the cartouches