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Philosophy

the gap is the product

Advertising sells illuminated absence, incentivising us to pursue idealised selves that remain permanently, profitably out of reach.

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communication

comment is free, but are facts sacred?

Facts may not be sacred in practice, but the alternative is shameless informational feudalism: a world in which power determines visibility, visibility determines belief, and belief dissociatively drifts away from the world it claims to describe.