Structural Dissonance Defines The Internet

This week we’re going deep on a term Luke coined a few episodes ago: “structural dissonance”. It’s that feeling you get seeing images of the invasion of Ukraine in the same content feed as memes, viral animals, lifestyle influencers, or video game playthroughs. It defines the internet, but it also defines kind of our entire current existence. It’s confusing and weird and is breaking our brains and making it harder to understand actual reality. As you can tell, this week’s episode is very light.SHOW NOTESMore about the Doodles NFTs at SXSWEven more about the Doodles NFTsRyan’s previous write-up on the Something Awful 9/11 threadThe Something Awful 9/11 archiveThe Pew Research piece on the Arab SpringEmerson T. Brooking’s tweetr/VolunteersForUkraineWill Beating Cancer This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.thecontentmines.com