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Welcome to Hyperreality

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I recently came across some stunning statistics on screen time... Personally, for me it’s 6-8 hours of phone time plus time in front of a computer monitor. In fact, all your waking time is spent consuming other people’s thoughts, experiencing other people’s emotions, looking at various images that don’t always even have prototypes in real life. Jean Baudrillard came up with a term for this - hyperreality, a symbolic reflection of reality, which often distorts it or even replaces it with something opposite. Given the fact that we spend more time on screens than we do sleeping, one might try to assume that our attention is a good environment for creating any picture of the world. And this, in turn, can be used to enrich corporations, for example, by introducing successful and wealthy people into trends, thereby spurring a burning feeling of envy among the less successful masses and forcing them to consume more in order to at least fill the inner emptiness. But as you know from my previous works, the enrichment of corporations, and capitalism in general, has reached a very rapid growth that cannot last long. Consequently, rappers with gold chains will soon leave the sphere of our attention, they will be replaced by modest, smart and truly talented people who will provoke people to save more than to consume. Thin people will replace fat ones, diseases will disappear into oblivion as soon as Coca-Cola stops being seen so often, movie actors stop lighting cigarettes beautifully, and rappers, having disappeared from our attention, will stop listing the prohibited substances they consumed this evening. Hyperreality will not take on such a frightening appearance as it does now. In the meantime, we should be on alert, falling into the flow of information that pleasantly tickles our insides. Being determines consciousness, as Karl Marx said, and if being is 6 hours of screen, rigged by unclean algorithms, then our aspirations are the result of their influence.

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