Internet, Neighbor, Power
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3 min readFeb 1, 2024
- There are two things to know about the internet:
The Elon Musk news that I get on my Microsoft Edge newsfeed is not based on my preference. Neither were the Ayodhya Ram temple videos I got on my YouTube homepage a week ago. - If the title of your online piece has ‘do these x things…’ or ‘I learned x…’ I skip everything before and after the x’s. Like how I skip the warnings on my cigarette packet.
- The first thing my new neighbor asked me was how noisy it got in the building.
‘It’s quiet,’ I told her and returned vowing to cut down on the noise we make.
Turns out she was trying to figure out her new neighbor’s tolerance to extreme noise. - I got a glimpse of how dreams work. I saw myself eating a lion’s head barbecue on the morning I was supposed to receive my order of Lion’s Mane.
- I’m watching a lot of wrestling videos these days. And I ask myself why. Nostalgia, drama, extravaganza, and decryption are the few answers I get. The same reasons I lose sense of space, time, and misery whenever I get lost in a powerful memory.
- The purpose of satire is to stop people from falling for the illusion that the powerful and the popular create.
Humor on the other hand can elevate a person to further heroic or godly status. It doesn’t necessarily show the absurd. It can also show the charm.
That’s why in a…
