God died, so art became religion; but now art is content—so back to God!
On the nihilistic abyss of the Internet, what matters is someone's politics, their sex life, and maybe nothing else; we can only think in terms of ad hominem and takedowns. The Internet person passively snipes—snipes for no reason. Philistine smallness—as well as a deep aversion to those who live active, risk-taking lives—fills up every soul.
The cycle of modernization: first there's an improvement, then there's optimization, and then there's an obvious overstepping—overgrowth and destruction. This is true of urban planning, pharmaceuticals, automobiles, the Internet, phones, et al.
Even though I still read every day, I wish, with great fervency, to be addicted to books again in the way that I was when I was younger.
Scroll Brain is a poor parody of Book-Brain.
We should think about the Internet the way Jane Jacobs thought about Robert Moses. It's already destroyed about 20% of the polis and it's aiming for more and if we don't stop it, we'll never get it back.
Which writers do I most feel an affinity with (in terms of philosophical mood, not style)? Rousseau, Wordsworth, Lawrence.
Novalis: philosophy is homesickness, an urge to be at home everywhere.
Self-loathing———————> self-ironizing.
I consume Twitter content like someone eating sand in a desert.
After Dimes Square, I found it harder to stay off the Internet—unable to stop