Acceleration vs. Collapse - Deepstash

Acceleration vs. Collapse

Each invention leads to 10 more; The printing press begets a flood of books. The steam engine births an industrial complex.

With each symbolic advance, the volume of abstraction increases. More data, more definitions, more contradictory maps.

  • Children are born into cultures saturated with more symbols than their grandparents could have imagined.
  • They inherit not just trauma and language, but entire cognitive overloads.

Media feeds ideological clashes and algorithmic preferences. The spiral tightens and the psyche strains to keep up.

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Content Curator | Absurdist | Amateur Gamer | Failed musician | Successful pessimist | Pianist |

What if your entire personality was just software—written by parents, schools, ads, trauma, and culture? 🤔 This is pt. 1 of the series.

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