Rootless pseudo-culture

Rootless pseudo-culture

I wouldn't say that the modern world has a culture, which I would loosely define as an ambient social environment which helps inform our relationships with one another and our broader context, such as nature and other such embodied realities. In other words, a culture is something like the collective equivalent of the human body.
Instead what we have is a hyper-fragmented schizoid self-referential network of coping mechanisms. The coping mechanism part is rather apparent with digital entertainment, but social media also largely serves as cope for people who do not have any agency in their life, by giving them the illusion of doing something useful by debating with other people. To be more explicit about the other terms:


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2024-07-22