Jul 2, 2025
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“Online, all impersonal worldly events are experienced as intensely personal, even if we don’t play a role in them. We internalize everything, struggle to see beyond ourselves, to see the mechanisms that are not centered on us. The internet is a claustrophobia of interiority that only appears to be ours. It “doesn’t work by suppression, or repression, but through a participative process … [It] doesn’t represent or even ‘manipulate’ public opinion but substitutes for it.” All actions are reactions, predictable reactions, endless nervous systems swaying to the same rhythm.”
— Bogna Konior, The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet
