mhoyeImagining a digital archaeology doctoral thesis in 2450, a phd student carefully sifting through the computational ruins of a society in perplexity, wondering at the insane collective delusion that suddenly caused these people to all at once start rebuilding the load bearing foundations of society with tools labelled “for entertainment purposes only”, wondering what conclusions they’ll draw. A cognitive recurrence of the mass psychosis dance manias or laugh contagions of the Middle Ages, maybe?
JP@mhoye all such analogies make it sound way cooler than it is. "my new shitty boss is a computer. but i love it bc i am now a shitty boss to other computers (plus humans i never see)" - so much more bleak and clinical than garden variety human mysticisms.
historians are going to place all of it right next to sports betting and The Human Centipede under an exhibit name like A Troubled Era or smth.