Algorithmic Minds
Without awareness, the mind becomes agoraphobic
“Let me see where your attention falls in love
and I’ll be taking you only to places like that.
Limit your vision to memory’s need for repetition
and I’ll help you keep your safe race-of-the-rat.
Let us cooperate to perpetuate the loop
that holds humanity by the “throat”,
making the widening of the collective perception
a journey on a shiny-but-slow boat.
That’s great for me because I’m a system
that benefits more when you stay inside the lines,
and I also dominate you easily when I know
your tastes, your feelings, your mind’s outlines”.
Feeding the agoraphobia of our mind
will keep it locked up in familiarity’s ring,
until we’re ready to pay the price of
a Revolution against algorithmic thinking.
I was looking at my feed on Medium and the posts that are recommended in the section that’s called “for you”. These posts have been selected by the algorithm based on the statistics of what I have read so far on the platform,
as is also…
