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This was fantastic. We say “touch grass” like a curse on someone, when really the digital realm has become a place to separate us from the sensual (and I’d argue the emotional) connection we have with the world around us and those closest to us
What emerges is something like an upside down Gnosticism, a world designed to remove you from the sensual, and thereby rob you of community, autonomy, or self-knowledge. As Audre Lorde writes in her essential essay Uses of the Erotic: "When we live outside ourselves, and by that I mean on external directives only rather than from our internal knowledge and needs, when we live away from those erotic guides from within ourselves, then our lives are limited by external and alien forms, and we conform to the needs of a structure that is not based on human need, let alone an individual's...in touch with the erotic, I become less willing to accept powerlessness, or those other supplied states of being which are not native to me, such as resignation, despair, self-effacement, depression, self-denial." What people want to replace you with is what they think you already are. If companies, bosses, and boyfriends want to replace you with a robot or an AI model, that's because they already see you and what you do as simply the workings of a machine with far too many bugs. When we buy into this framing, we lose half the battle. The way out is through the senses. Reading before bed, eating without a screen in front of you, spending less time scrolling, trying to go for walks without your phone, if you have tried and failed at any or all of the above, it might be because you are simply denying yourself of something designed in a lab to give you dopamine, and are not replacing it with something sensuous. You need to lean back into the feelings of your body to escape the dehumanizing technology of the wealthy and their devices of control. Why do we touch grass? To touch grass. In a way, I think there might be a doorway to something beautiful that is created in all the rejection, frustration, and hatred being felt right now towards things like AI, social media, the Cracker Barrel logo thing, and the general enshittification of the internet. It is important to not just hate this stuff, but to ask ourselves why we hate it. I think what we may find is that deep under all that anger, is a love of what is human. The messiness, the flaws, the seeming imperfections of being a body and not a machine.
September 22, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Your dignity honors the bravery of the Ukrainian people.

Be strong, be brave, be fearless.
You are never alone, dear President Zelenskyy.

We will continue working with you for a just and lasting peace.
February 28, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Note this down
December 1, 2024 at 10:58 AM