It's consensus collapse, started with the penny press in the 1830/40s, and has accelerated like a hockey stick.
In the context of widely available birth control people need to agree on a lot to have children. But because the dominant media paradigm is engagement based, meaning funded by advertising, rather than consensus based, we're in the middle of a dramatic consensus collapse, a dis-integration.
Not only are individuals atomised by filter bubbles and personalised media consumption, but we are losing the capacity to form a narrative based life that is integrated across time, a unified sense of self, with consciousness collapsed into moments of experience governed by high time preference.
Fewer people have the capacity to form relationships that are conducive to children, so they become pod-people.
It's consensus collapse, started with the penny press in the 1830/40s, and has accelerated like a hockey stick.
In the context of widely available birth control people need to agree on a lot to have children. But because the dominant media paradigm is engagement based, meaning funded by advertising, rather than consensus based, we're in the middle of a dramatic consensus collapse, a dis-integration.
Not only are individuals atomised by filter bubbles and personalised media consumption, but we are losing the capacity to form a narrative based life that is integrated across time, a unified sense of self, with consciousness collapsed into moments of experience governed by high time preference.
Fewer people have the capacity to form relationships that are conducive to children, so they become pod-people.