Substack
Digital
By Olivia J. Bennett
“It’s the same loop of never-ending think pieces blaming social media for our alienation—"the internet controls everything," then, "the internet isn’t real life." Well, which is it? The Code forces these anal-gazing auteurs to confront themselves, answering back with: "You signed up for this, remember?" But with so many of us trapped in the immediacy of now—denying any deeper connections to the past and too distracted to think beyond the present—what’s left to actually link together?”