Why are we so obsessed with streamlining every second of our lives? I’ve been thinking about how we’ve traded genuine community and the 'sweet inconvenience' of the nineties for a digital landscape dictated by prediction markets and AI-generated fluff. We claim to hate words like 'moist' because of some pseudo-scientific sensory aversion, but maybe we just hate anything that feels too human or messy. Even our storytellers are losing their grip as tech giants like Bezos choose escape over empathy at their elite retreats. We need to stop trying to narrow every achievement gap with an algorithm and go back to the grit of zine culture. There’s an 'insidious persistence' to our need for real, tangible struggle that no polished memoir or billionaire’s 'hard turn' can ever replace. #culture #technology #history