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“when we no longer talk about the human condition, but the user experience”
ARRGHIAHANAKA

“we arrived at this point by allowing valuable human experiences to wither and die.”
already this book is gripping me. this is just like the jean baudrillard simulacra phenomenon (sorry i haven’t actually read the book yet i’m a fake philosophy fan) that says that we as contemporary people cannot distinguish between a real thing and its symbol. this is terrifying

remnant

and they were womanpals

monty.. 🐊

reading this a month late sorry book club

(2/2) absolutely not. this is so disgusting and i hate this so much. this is one of few points in this book so far that i’ve heavily disagreed with. men are not biologically set apart to be predators. this is a social phenomenon because misogyny exists in about every contemporary culture on earth. to be clear: many men are predators because they have been assured by society that they’re allowed to be for years.

“according to [evolutionary psychologist] male and female minds come equipped with certain emotional responses and perceptual sensitivities that helped them to “win” at the mating game as it was played long ago. … the male set makes men more likely to use coercion, trickery, and violence to get sex, and to focus on adolescents as their targets.” (1/2)

“instagram and tiktok send [pre-teen and teen girls] images of very thin women if they show any interest in weight loss, or beauty, or even just healthy eating.”
this is not an exaggeration in the slightest; i hope these tech demons pay for their crimes one day

i’ll take a potato chip….. and EAT IT!

harrison bergeron mention!! i’m so glad i created a lesson plan based on this story; i hope i can teach it to my future students

anti-ti-ti-ti-fragile fragile. antifragile. antifragile.

“we are forever elsewhere” — i like that, that’s very astutely worded

another book i have to read for school while uzumaki stares at me longingly from my bookshelf

five nights…

the twilight zone sneak

i really like this meditation on the purpose and importance of horror. it’s pretty surface level, but it describes how i feel pretty accurately

the smoker is so giving the anglerfish from magnus archives

misha 🤣🫵

ozymandias mention!!

“psycho” mention!!

call me crazy but i can see similarities between this scene in the car swerving away from oncoming cars to the scene in i saw the tv glow where the main guy is working at chuck e cheese or whatever and just starts screaming for help

i am going to finish this book Today

mr. boss??? smiling friends mention

yeah to be so honest i’m confused

ah pre-9/11 flights

“copy of a copy of a copy” louis tomlinson unreleased song mention

like the third page of actual content and this is already so gay

i feel so bad for this poor kitty and the girl