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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • As others have already said, I guess it’s the repository of content. I watched Heat and Cape Fear for the first time yesterday, and then spent like an hour reading random threads about it. And I could have easily continued! And there are movies with an endless supply of huge threads, like Eyes Wide Shut.

    This is just an anecdotal example that I just lived yesterday.





  • In general, designing an identity around some very specific stances (metalhead, techie, gamer, nerd, political ideologies, sports team) or material qualities (sexual orientation, disabilities, location where you were born) works against your well-being in various ways:

    • You’re socially and mentally wall-gardening yourself.
    • Inbues your whole life with the “us-vs-them” fallacious world that will only cause anxiety, fear and ire.
    • Easier to bottle up in internet bubbles, further polarizing and radicalizing yourself.
    • Detaches you from other realities. Harder to relate to the varied people you find in real life. Everything outside your closed community feels either scary or stupid.
    • It makes you static and unmoving. Harder to actualize yourself.
    • It makes you easier to be exploited by marketing and consumerism targeted towards those demographics/hashtags. This was the main goal behind the media development of 70’s identities (metalhead, punkhead, MTV, jpop): selling merchandise, tickets and ads.