Imagine this: You wake up, drink some coffee, check your emails and put on some quality tunes- for me right now, it's Clams Casino- and go about doing what it is you do before you step out of your house, maybe chill hard, maybe work on a painting, maybe smoke a cigarette and talk with neighbors or roommates, maybe do some stretching, and all the while that music is still playing behind you, filling the spaces of thought that- if absent- would reveal a precipice... This creates your day, at least in a brief microcosm, and it becomes apparent that we've collectively designed and integrated these kind of technologies to allow us to not only observe our multi-faceted, fractal-sensory lives, but to contribute to it on a regular basis, creating for ourselves- on one side- a sense of personal fulfillment and peace, and also- conversely- a crippling, paranoid psychosis- convincing us that we're autonomous beings, incapable of truly understanding each other in any sense.

In prior epochs, humans had to fight for the ability to maintain their sense of self-image with art... Now, we brush our teeth as art fills our ears. We take pisses in public restrooms and Beethoven serenades us. Instagram allows us to place automatic filters on all of our photographs, giving them a false sense of time/place, as if we're still living in an era of flawed processing or analog unpredictability. Homogenization occurs in this sense, as we all wake up and do the same exact thing, and we imagine our autonomous lives as being separate and totally exclusive, yet when we turn on to the outside world, we are subjected to the same images, the same sounds, the same clothes, the same social gaps, the same inequalities... This is the capitalist snare, "creating out of itself its only fruitful opposite," (Sloterdijk) the life of negation and self-will, fueled by the schizophrenic tendencies and shame from participating in such a corrupt formation of world politics, feeling like we have little to no choice but to create a multitude of artificial choices to conceal our innate lack of freedom.

The universe is beautiful because it is horrible and treacherous.

Have a nice day.