It Sucks Out There: Hyper-Individualization, Tiktok, and the Terminal Decline of American Society
The Regrettable Century · Chris, Kevin, Jason, Ben, and Jess
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Show Notes
We invited podcast alumnus, Jess, back to talk about how terrible everything is. We touch on Tiktok houses, literature, and the death of the future.
The End of The Future
https://jacobin.com/2024/03/left-politics-future-history-capitalism-progress
Why Is Our Culture So Obsessed With Individual Experience
https://jacobin.com/2024/03/anna-kornbluh-immediacy-individualism-capitalism/
Guy Debord’s Society of the Spectacle: Are We Defined by How We Appear
https://www.thecollector.com/guy-debord-society-of-the-spectacle/
The Anxiety of Influencers
https://harpers.org/archive/2021/06/tiktok-house-collab-house-the-anxiety-of-influencers/