you're just kicking in doors

josephine, 21, rotterdam

[polkadotmotmot]

Rosemary Burn - Bathwater, 2021

[deepwang27]

[ziggyminx]

[hjarta-deactivated20260124]

good morning dev patel nation

[picsthatmakeyougohmm]

hmmm

[lady-only-in-black]

[tinyfilms]

Max Pinckers

[mstislav-dobuzhinsky]

Vitebsk, 1919, Mstislav Dobuzhinsky

[hotgirlsasuke-deactivated202011]

what is your cishet male trait mine is being a car fan

[ultrajumpinthings]

David Rudnick

[polkadotmotmot]

Yehuda Armoni - Ocher in Canada Park, 2020

[anditslove]

Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

[artemisiasea]

Wow! All life is experimental! Love that. This morning feels brand new.

[havingcompassion-deactivated202]

Once you stop trying to entertain this imaginary audience and start living for yourself things should get a bit better

[gowns]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imaginary_audience

this is a developmental stage of adolescents

[gowns]

do you think that social media is keeping larger numbers of us in a state of arrested development?

this is rhetorical – since clearly a lot of people find this sentiment relateable

the truly painful fact is that the internet provides an opportunity to craft a “personal fable” for everyone; it is now both highly personal and highly anonymized. you are a brand in a sea of brands. 

adolescents are self-conscious because of an “imaginary audience,” something that was, in the 1960s, a false concept. but today, if you use social media regularly, you actually do have an audience. what is the effect of this? probably drags the brain more into self-conscious ego-centrism; makes people more susceptible to trends; maybe this is what makes “internet discourse” so vile, because it’s so terribly egocentric + responsive to its own audience.

unfortunately there’s no way to undo what’s already been done. the cat’s out of the box, the porridge has been stirred, the universe tends towards entropy. it will be interesting to see how these machines shape our brains, and how future generations might resist the lure of audiences and fables

[monokoh]

me: *talks* wait am i annoying

me: *doesnt talk* wait am i boring

[peopleofcolours]

[butterballhana-blog]