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kontextmaschine:

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The Old Internet I Loved

What I Thought It Was:

A World Where Established Orders Were Rendered Superfluous, and In the Absence Of Coordinating Forces, A Congenial Culture Arose From The Free Interplay Of All the World\u2019s Diverse Peoples

What It Was, Apparently:

A World So Hegemonically Dominated by People In a Similar Class and Cultural Position That Our Interests Were Simply Uncritically Adopted as Local Cultural Norms, Which Could Then Be Misread as the Sensibility of the World Entire

So uh I guess it was that second one I was fond of the whole time and saw as our salvation from a broken world?

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