Picturing the Humanity and Dread of the Infinite Scroll
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- It is already difficult for me to imagine anything other than this—anything other than grabbing the pocket-sized Internet to assume the vantage points of a god and a serf, simultaneously, anything other than constant confrontation with the systems that both demand our action and dwarf us into utter inconsequence.
- The screen keeps us at a distance, no matter how persistently we paw at it. When we turn on our phones to absorb our daily onslaught of incoherence, we begin to slowly lose our sense of the world as something we participate in with our bodies, in a group that is capable of as-yet-unseen action, rather than alone, with our eyes and the tips of our fingers. Little by little, we cede the world to abstraction, consumption, and misuse.