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Internet is claustrophobic

submitted by OriginalGoat to whatever 1.4 yearsJan 30, 2024 00:29:24 ago (+8/-0)     (whatever)

I know, touch grass blah blah... but I come from a place where the internet was freedom. I was a 90s kid. Not perpetually online but no stranger to online activity. I didn't spend a lot of time here but also didn't know what to expect when I was here. Everything and anything. Nothing was surprising.

It's crazy how watered-down, controlled and pathetically small the internet has become. What used to be an entire universe of ideas reduced to nothing but a couple small cities.

It's crazy how divisive such a hypothetically unifying thing has become. A mutated, hate-filled brainwashing hypnosis chamber.

One day, I'll sit around a campfire with my kids near the edge of humanity and look up at the stars. I'll tell them that the stars in the sky were all the different ideas on the internet, now, travel to the city and search for the stars there at night. That's how many ideas are allowed to exist in this world now.

It's all so claustrophobic.


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[ - ] i_scream_trucks 2 points 1.4 yearsJan 30, 2024 01:28:55 ago (+2/-0)

Fuck I'm old enough to remember the days before pedos found itc when you could legit pick up off the internet

Fuck I'm old enough to remember repeatedly dialing for 45 minutes to try and get one of the 8 incoming phone lines for GamesUniverse BBS

[ - ] NaturalSelectionistWorker 0 points 1.4 yearsJan 30, 2024 04:47:46 ago (+0/-0)

Legend of the Red Dragon amirite?

[ - ] i_scream_trucks 0 points 1.4 yearsJan 30, 2024 16:23:21 ago (+0/-0)

Major MUD

[ - ] oyveyo 2 points 1.4 yearsJan 30, 2024 01:27:14 ago (+2/-0)

The skyglow will continue to increase until even the edge of humanity can no longer see the stars.

They won't be happy until every inch of the planet is bathed in LED puke.

[ - ] NaturalSelectionistWorker 1 point 1.4 yearsJan 30, 2024 04:50:18 ago (+1/-0)

Share meat with your mates.

But yeah, ever since they started cultivating feeds we've been kept in echo chambers.

I've begun an experiment using the esoteric symbolism in predictive programming and media to break down the barriers by showing people how scripted the reality they're mad about is. So far I have turned two degenerates into 9/11 conspiracy theorists. Will let y'all know when I've had a chance to try it out on more normie and/or leftist scum.

[ - ] ImplicationOverReason 0 points 1.4 yearsJan 30, 2024 05:11:09 ago (+1/-1)

claustrophobic

Claustrum (confined place) + Phobia (fear)...choosing to focus on a suggested screen implies willingly embracing an offer that confines one to the screen. The fear is about not getting more of the suggested fix, and having to refocus on everything outside the confining screen.

internet

Aka internal net...it's oneself that chooses to view reality through the perspective of a fictitious net.

how divisive a unifying thing has become

Uni (Latin unus; one) implies one apart from one another, hence a division of partials (ones) within whole (oneness). Latin dividere - "to force apart; separate into parts".

Unity implies apartheid; others suggest it to mean togetherness.