Tag: shallow

Swipe Left

Post author By G
Post date Aug 10, 2021
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I’m a disavowed “swipe left” in this world of manifest superficiality and instantaneous digital gratification; not much interested in the narcissistic hedonism of commercially-mediated myopia and all these profoundly narrow behavioural games and shallow conceptual vocabularies, I really am completely out of place here. Nevermind that all we ever do by embracing and chasing all […]

Tags alienation, Digital, empty, futile, hollow, influencers, isolation, lonely, meaning, meaningless, shallow, social media, superficial, technology, tinder

Philosophy

Instagrammatical Narcissism

Post author By G
Post date Jan 9, 2021
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Instagram is – at base – narcissism, self-obsession, insecurity, pathological inadequacy and the normative, technologically-mediated ubiquity of endless self-surveillance as peer-group pressure on steroids. It’s probably offensive for some people to hear these analytical assessments but, really, that’s ok – it is a part of a core psychological narcissism that the confrontation with and of […]