The Circle
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”It’s not that I’m not social. I’m social enough. But
the tools you guys create actually manufacture unnaturally extreme social
needs. No one needs the level of contact you’re purveying. It improves nothing.
It’s not nourishing. It’s like snack food. You know how they engineer this
food? They scientifically determine precisely how much salt and fat they need
to include to keep you eating. You’re not hungry, you don’t need the food, it
does nothing for you, but you keep eating these empty calories. This is what
you’re pushing. Same thing. Endless empty calories, but the digital-social
equivalent. And you calibrate it so it’s equally addictive [...] You know how you finish a bag of chips and you hate yourself? You know you've done nothing good for yourself. That's the same feeling, and you know it is, after some digital binge. You feel wasted and hollow and diminished." (134-135)
The Circle af Dave Eggers.
2 kommentarer:
Hej Stefan,
fed nok blog.
Ikke for at være pedantisk, men er det ikke Maes ekskæreste Mercer (ham med lamperne), der leverer netop denne svada?
Hej, tak for kommentaren, som ikke er pedantisk, jo det kan sgu da godt være, ups. Det passe jo også bedre, idet Mae jo er den, der tilpasser sig (jeg er ikke færdig med bogen endnu). Jeg tjekker og retter det ; - )))
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