Hollowed Out
The status quo has pushed everything to an extreme of hollowed-out instability to maintain a superficial appearance of normalcy and stability. But it’s all fake.
The phrase that best describes the present era is hollowed out. By hollowed out I mean the exterior facade still looks pretty much the same as it did in the past, but the internal structure has corroded / eroded to the point that little remains of what provided strength and stability. What’s left is the illusion of stability.
Our spectacles have been hollowed out, lifeless, rote repeats of past performances, reduced to unintentional parodies of what was once vibrant.
Our entertainment has been hollowed out, dominated by remakes, retreads, threadbare extensions of tent-pole franchises and sound-alike songs.
Even our outrage has been hollowed out, perfunctory displays phoned in from afar, as we all know outrage has been exhausted along with everything else.
Our “innovation” has been hollowed out, with toys such as flying motorcycles and self-driving taxis presented as “solutions” to phantom “problems,” “solutions” that boil down to hype, clickbait or another reach for higher corporate profits. The most visible result of AI is AI Slop:
AI Slop: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (29 min) (via Richard M.)
Our incentives have been hollowed out, leaving only the most perverse extremes. The motivation to flood social media with AI Sl
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