Anja Semanco (@anjasemanco): "This piece is fantastic. Social media is riddled with all-or-nothing thinking because the algorithm loves it (and, if the algorithm loves it, it means people also gave their attention to it). The human body is not all-or-nothing. You will drive yourself insane trying to follow a…"

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This piece is fantastic. Social media is riddled with all-or-nothing thinking because the algorithm loves it (and, if the algorithm loves it, it means people also gave their attention to it). The human body is not all-or-nothing. You will drive yourself insane trying to follow a standard like that.

This compulsion to categorise and diagnose the experience of being alive, to draw a rigid boundary between normative and aberrant, feels like one of the defining traits of our times. Things must be labelled and pathologised. If you forget things occasionally, you have ADHD. If you’re a little awkward, it’s autism. If you enjoy a drink, you’re an alcoholic. It’s the logic of the algorithm, if that, then this internalised and replicated in real life.

Hannah Williams

May 12

2:37 PM

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