We've entered the era of "brainrot." We became a global fragmentation of doom scrolling, context-lacking, uncurious, blindly accepting, regurgitating masses. The cycle of viral content is faster than the cycle of understanding. People aren't generating thoughts so much as playing back content they've absorbed.

Westenberg.

On Brainrot

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