Can Humans Still Govern Ourselves? by Joan Westenberg (world.hey.com)

It’s hard to shake the feeling that we’ve entered an era where we can no longer govern ourselves without some kind of technological babysitter. This isn’t the age-old pessimism about human nature, and it’s not an uncritical embrace of “technology will save us” optimistic fuckery. It’s more like we’ve reached a tipping point — a combina…

It’s hard to shake the feeling that we’ve entered an era where we can no longer govern ourselves without some kind of technological babysitter.

This is cheerful reading.

The consumer capitalist culture that we live in is deeply invested in the sequestering and hiding the fact of our death, of our mortality. Which has weird and far-reaching consequences, not least of which being that it really destabilizes our sense of meaning as humans.

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