Social media spawned the surveillance economy and later the reality where creating a reel became a serious profession for people. We're living through the birth of the Wall-E world. Where AI brainrot is just contagious enough that we either can't notice or won't call out the fact that most of us are already displaced and obsolete. We are headed towards a crisis of meaning as a species. We are meant to create and have purpose. We are meant to connect with each other in community. Life is supposed to be slow enough that we can stop and smell the roses. Reels are not human connection. They are not actual productivity. Humanity must find a new way to find the human experience in the increasingly inhuman world we inhabit. McKenna's novelty theory is playing out right now to a crescendo.

We are going to have to talk about how weird it is getting out there.