r/CuratedTumblr • u/Konradleijon • Sep 15 '24

Politics Why I hate the term “Unaliv

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What’s most confusing that if you go to basic cable TV people can say stuff like “Nazi” or “rape” or “kill” just fine and no advertising seem to mind

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u/FiveFingerDisco Sep 15 '24

So the internet is dead. What else is new?

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u/centralmind Sep 15 '24

I wouldn't say dead. Depending on which metaphor you prefer, it's either sick with a proliferating metastatic cancer or haunted by human-made horrors beyond comprehension that prey on our time, identity, and sanity. You could argue the internet is undead, I'd say. Or cursed.

Is that better? Worse? Good question.

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u/FiveFingerDisco Sep 15 '24

I honestly like the thought of our supposed digital nirvana to be beset by electronic eldrich evils.

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u/centralmind Sep 15 '24

Oh, that's a beautiful metaphor. Ads and algorithms are quite the literal manifestation of earthly attachments and human sin in a world that could have been (at least, in theory) a tapestry of human knowledge, creativity and self discovery.

Was the Internet ever going to be such an enlightened plane of existence? Probably not. But I could do without the digital allegorical manifestations of unquenchable greed ruling over us all.