rossbates on Nostr: Dunno man. You could argue that we’ve spent 2500 years cultivating the individual, ...

Dunno man. You could argue that we’ve spent 2500 years cultivating the individual, and what McLuhan was observing with mass media was just the beginning of technology being used to accelerate this.

Digital platforms use hyper-personalization to cater specifically to each psyche, resulting in 8 billion lonely world views. It might be cohesion which is at risk, not the individual.