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How are we getting so cruel with every passing day? Killing someone? Taking someone's life so easily without flinching? Are we all that deeply self-absorbed? So blinded by our own wishes and demands? In fact, to the point that we could go to the ultimate lengths of brutality just to have control over anything and everything as per the will of our hearts. It is very heartbreaking to see humanity diminishing like a burning candle on the brink of extinguishing. Hate to see how the world is turning into a hellhole in astonishing ways every other day. We are building a society so unfairly unsafe that trust won't stand a chance to sustain, no matter what!

The street scammer disappeared, or died on some corner, or ended up stealing cars because nobody falls for the gold-ring story anymore. But he didn't go extinct: he migrated medium. Before, he needed the street, a knife, a straight face, and above all he needed proximity to his mark — to read a body, to calculate in seconds whether the risk was worth it. Now he needs an account, a stolen profile photo, and a generic message. The input changed — he no longer steals objects, he steals attention and minutes of doubt — but the structure is identical: generate urgency, simulate abundance, ask you to act before you think.

«The Poetics of The Scam »By th3Circuit, 2025.

Censorship is not a deviation. It is a necessity. Every system that intends to endure eventually produces it-not by choice, but because no structure can absorb the totality of reality without collapsing. It has to filter. It has to reduce. It has to lose. What we call “censorship” is simply the moment when that loss becomes visible, while the rest of the time it remains embedded, invisible, and functional. Reality, in its raw state, is unassimilable-too dense, too contradictory, too unstable. No language can contain it without distortion. No framework can hold it without mutilation. So systems make a cut. Not a clean one. Not an honest one. A diffuse, continuous cut, built into their very operation. They do not remove things; they select what is allowed to exist within them. And that selection does not follow morality. It follows constraint: survival. Everything that strains the structure is gradually eliminated-not because it is false, but because it is costly, unstable, excessive. Truth is not censored because it is offensive. It is censored because it exceeds what the system can sustain. So the system simplifies. It compresses forms, flattens contradictions, reconstructs a world compatible with its own limits-a poorer world, but a sustainable one. And as this reduction deepens, an inversion takes place. It is no longer reality that defines what can be said; it is what can be said that begins to define reality. What cannot be expressed disappears-not in fact, but in shared experience. It ceases to exist as something that can be transmitted, and therefore as something that can operate as reality. This is where censorship reaches its purest form: when it no longer needs to remove anything, because everything has already been redefined in advance. What remains is a coherent, stable, perfectly functional world-and a deeply amputated one. A world where everything makes sense because everything that resisted sense has been eliminated. A world without contradiction, because contradiction can no longer take shape. A world without excess, because excess has no form left to inhabit. This is not a peaceful world. It is a closed one. And in a closed system, disappearance makes no sound. It becomes the very condition of what remains.

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Say what you like about Joe Rogan but when he tired of the juvenile content of The Man Show and Fear Factor he made a lot of interesting, innovative interviews. Stern couldn’t find a middle ground between crass sensationalism and milquetoast maundering. Now, forums and podcasts are full of ex-admirers complaining that he forgot to entertain them. In this, Howard Stern has become a striking representative of elite baby boomers, whose iconoclastic and cynical attitudes have been mutating into moralism and hysteria as the thunk thunk thunk of the bottom of a scythe approaches. They spent decades mocking the dinosaurs who came before them — but now they are the dinosaurs.

Ben Sixsmith, “Howard Stern and Boomer Decline” (October 29th 2022).

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