Abstract
Human’s capacity for curiosity and inventiveness led to many great achievements from discovering fire to creating the Internet. However, our narcissism and greed created a society with many catch-22’s
We’re advertised to at a speed unnatural to the human brain’s capacity to process. With this constant bombardment of information, I felt a repulsive desire to participate in social media early in my life.
It all felt like a vanity game, and as I’ve grown up I began to identify it with the games Monopoly and Chess. We are the pieces on the board and nations, governments, and international corporations are the players. Few pieces become large enough to compete in this game and most do their best to survive on the board. Just as many get permanently knocked out, whether that be expiring or becoming invisible.
”The USA’s biggest export is entertainment” - Beez
Observations
Keywords
hedonism, capitalism, Fredrich Nietzsche, mimesis, mimetics, Matrix, The Nature of Reality, Philosophy, Psychology, Internet, Artificial Intelligence, Products, People, The Fourth Turning, Politics, Power, socialism, TikTok, Creator Economy, social media influencers, narcissism, Existentialism, 1984, George Orwell, The Denial of Death, utopia, ego, Man’s Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl, Marketing, Paid Advertising, introspection, Blaise Pascal, Pensées, Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell, information overload, consumerism, A Brave New World, degradation, mindfulness, Sam Harris, waking up, meditation, Communism, Fascism, Adolf Hitler, Donald Trump, narcissism, Karl Marx, Black Lives Matter, Robert Greene, Ryan Holiday, struggle, the pursuit of happiness, United States of America, China, India, Russia, United Kingdom, the facade of freedom, censorship, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, social media