It Sucks Out There: Hyper-Individualization, Tiktok, and the Terminal Decline of American Society

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It Sucks Out There: Hyper-Individualization, Tiktok, and the Terminal Decline of American Society

from The Regrettable Century · host Chris, Kevin, Jason, Ben, and Jess

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/ Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

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