[Place of lost] is a placeholder for a word that does not exist. A place we know the location of, but anything that enters 'becomes lost', in the sense that ...
Preface: I would advice against reading this tale if you are feeling depressed, suicidal, 'black pilled' or otherwise unhappy with the world. You have been warned. Have you ever paused to consider the absurdity that underpins the business models of many internet companies? Picture yourself walking into a fruit store, only to find that all the fruits are hidden behind opaque screens. When you ask…
About ten years ago, I saw a fat man with a Star Wars shirt on the street. The fat man looked terrible, but the shirt had a cool stormtrooper riding a chopper; This visage caused the following internal dialogue within my mind: "Why is he wearing that shirt?" "Well, it's a cool shirt." "Yeah, but it's just a picture atop a black shirt, there's cooler shirts out there, like full-print." "True... I…
The CCTV feed displayed a grim scene within one of the cells; a body hung motionless from the ceiling, its lifeless form casting a haunting shadow across the cold white walls. Private Pudgy, his face etched with the day's wear, took a deep draw from his cigar. Beside him, Cameral Jhon, a man both fair and imposing in stature, laid a comforting hand on his shoulder. "You get used to it, soldier,"…
Amidst a starry night, Unga sits alone, until Bunga aproaches with a smile. " Do you know what the internet is? " he asks, the word stumbling out of his tongue. Unga, puzzled, shakes his head. " No. " Bunga grabbed his arm " Let's ask Grandfather Rob, he knows many tales ." Together, they venture to their grandfather's hut, where Robby, with wrinkles mapping stories onto his face, sits by the…
The internet is the grounds for subversion of any systematic norm since no monetary gain is required to produce content, nor for said content to be seen. But the monetization of the internet has led to it becoming part of the systematic norm. By convincing people that anything they do must generate monetary value or otherwise it is pointless to make, they have made people put collars on…
image credits to: Himizu Within the digital labyrinth we call the internet, an eerie gloom pervades the virtual landscape, from the somber echoes of blog posts to the defeated speeches of forums. It's as if a shadow has settled over our collective online consciousness. But why? I believe the answer lies within the rise of mind viruses – insidious narratives that infect our thoughts and emotions.…
image credits to: Blame! Rusted, restless, and neglected, there laid the anti-community machine. The 'machine' is a complex array of mechanisms that unknowingly, and inevitably hurt a community. Before understanding the mechanisms, we need to talk about convenience, and the myth of the 'lazy' brain. The brain is anything but lazy, it is constantly attempting to optimize everything around it to…