I'm with you! I've been writing about this recently too, we def need more weird.
Interesting stat in this - there are now nearly three times more running clubs in the uk than nightclubs. It's great that people are spending time together in real life, but the loss of night clubs makes me sad because running doesn't allow for quite the same expression as dancing 😒
I’m in. All my time at R/GA (back in the formative years of these platforms) we talked about the need for “fitting in” in contrast to the “traditional medias” that talked about “standing out”. I now understand why I hated that idea. It takes off all the sharp edges. All advertising is now platform marketing. It’s all “fitting in” slipping frictionless into our lives and we are all just sliding into the algo’s vision for humanity that is reductionist and conforming (targeted awareness and mindless consumption…anything other is silenced and suppressed).Humanity is being shaped by algorithms that feed the emptiness that Carl Jung called “a persona” ie. life without ‘individuation’ - weirdness.
Ah, the wonders of weird. I've always hated the 'suburban cul-de-sac' because it's where originality and bravery come to a dead stop, and the mind idles on forever.
I'm with you! I've been writing about this recently too, we def need more weird.
Interesting stat in this - there are now nearly three times more running clubs in the uk than nightclubs. It's great that people are spending time together in real life, but the loss of night clubs makes me sad because running doesn't allow for quite the same expression as dancing 😒
You haven't run in new york!
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I’m in. All my time at R/GA (back in the formative years of these platforms) we talked about the need for “fitting in” in contrast to the “traditional medias” that talked about “standing out”. I now understand why I hated that idea. It takes off all the sharp edges. All advertising is now platform marketing. It’s all “fitting in” slipping frictionless into our lives and we are all just sliding into the algo’s vision for humanity that is reductionist and conforming (targeted awareness and mindless consumption…anything other is silenced and suppressed).Humanity is being shaped by algorithms that feed the emptiness that Carl Jung called “a persona” ie. life without ‘individuation’ - weirdness.
“They are all bacon up there…”
Ah, the wonders of weird. I've always hated the 'suburban cul-de-sac' because it's where originality and bravery come to a dead stop, and the mind idles on forever.
Loved this!
The post i didnt know i need. I miss the world (and the internet) being more weird.
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Fucking yes! I truly appreciate your insight 💪