i’m talking about the mundane stuff, like how we still carry around a bunch of plastic cards or wait for water to boil in a kettle instead of instantly. or maybe just our collective obsession with short form video? keen to hear what makes you shake your head thinking about the future.
As an elder millennial, I clocked him pretty much immediately. One of my best friends told me about one day about a decade ago and I was like “oh nah dude he’s a total pseudo-intellectual don’t listen to him”, and thankfully he trusted me enough that my doubt swayed him to not go down that rabbit hole.
I remember watching one of his livestreams and growing frustrated the moment he started talking about Pinocchio with a straight face. I kind of saw the phenomena up close, just out of college and having attended some philosophy courses. It’s not that the guy was a liar and a huckster. It’s not that his disinformation was so blatant. What impressed me is how quickly his ideas were adopted by popular culture. This made me very disappointed of the internet and English speaking culture in general.