I think this is maybe what all those A24 movies think they look like.
“Stay strong. Life is surreal. Don’t let it consume you.”
The idea that technology might one day offer us authentically terrifying and profound new possibilities feels weirdly nostalgic now we know that all that was ever waiting was crypto and slop.
Many years ago I read something somewhere (I’ve never been able to find it again) which essentially argued that what we experience as“depth” is just a quality of surface - like a mood, or a texture - and that everything is always equally shallow and equally profound because it all plays out on the same shimmering two-dimensional plane. I think about that all the time.
The virgin tech bro libertarian Wallace vs the chad anarcho-agrarianist Gromit.