@tombeck.eth

News and social media is an entirely different country. A different planet, even. I would even go so far as to describe the entire Internet as a collective creative project. A vast novel (or, perhaps a better analogy, a video game) that everyone participates in (some a little, some a lot). But while we would generally not confuse a novel about 1920s New York with the lived experience of people in 1920s New York, we confuse the Internet of now with the lived reality of now all the time (mostly because the feedback loop is so tight). We are all Don Quixotes, tilting at windmills, book-mad and unaware of the stories that have infected our brains.

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