Status Updates From A Era do Capitalismo da Vig...

Writing is so dense and doesn’t flow well, but ideas are super interesting

With Google's unique access to behavioral data, it would now be possible to know what a particular individual in a particular time and place was thinking, feeling, and doing. That this no longer seems astonishing to us, or perhaps even worthy of note, is evidence of the profound psychic numbing that has inured us to a bold and unprecedented shift in capitalist methods.

What is unbearable is that economic and social inequalities have reverted to the preindustrial feudal pattern but that we, the people, have not. We are not illiterate peasants, serfs, or slaves. Whether "middle class" or "marginalized," we share the collective historical condition of individualized persons with complex social experiences and opinions.