Emotional expression optimized for virality rather than genuine communication

- Personal “branding” as a normalized way to think about identity
- Social media metrics (likes, followers, engagement) as measures of social worth
- The constant need to be “seen” and “heard” translating individual existence into content production

What you’re describing is how market logic hasn’t just influenced American culture but has restructured the basic terms of social existence. Citizens increasingly relate to themselves and others through frameworks originally developed to sell products

Do we want to know and interact with a world mediated by constructed agents that follow policies that we have built to protect our individual interests in a former iteration of our world?

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