From selfies to selfhood: reclaiming authenticity in a world of performative posts. * Sartre's "gaze" and "bad faith" explained. * Why social media is a Sartrean hellscape. * Sartre's antidotes for digital despair. One of my favorite viral memes was a post saying they'
* Mircea Eliade and Emile Durkheim define a basis and utility for ritual in human connection. * Ritual is what's missing in modern society leading to depression, anxiety, and the loneliness epidemic. * Ritual can be embedded in UX design. * Technology is only isolating if the humans behind it neglect its
* Decentralized Fediverse apps remove the Plato's Cave quality of social media algorithms. * Algorithms remove freedom of thought and individual development in areas like political discourse. * Censorship prohibits freedom of thought as much as what the algorithms volunteer to you. * Without ads and algorithms social media can be a