This week, I’m living (and working) according to a little bit different time schedule than most weeks.
Just a few days ago, I had a marathon movie viewing bout — I think I watched 4 movies in an 8-hour time frame. They were all very different, and one of them I chose mainly based on the title of the movie alone: “Turtles All the Way Down” (which is a famous quote I myself also alluded to a couple weeks ago — see “Relational Data-Based Logic & Meta-Physical Constraints” [ https://socio.business.blog/2025/06/01/relational-data-based-logic-meta-physical-constraints ], specifically my point about “it’s fiction all the way down (or up, or sideways or whatever)”).
While this movie seems to be about a person who is very much “in their own head“, it also involves media in between people (as shown above) … and therefore also seems to harken back to another popular movie named “The Social Dilemma” (2020), about which I also wrote a post on another blog at that time — see “Herding Millennials — a new agenda for tech?” [ https://connect.data.blog/2020/09/16/herding-millennials-a-new-agenda-for-tech ]
I feel all of this is closely related to something I have also sort of discovered this week: increasingly, people seem to be commuting back and forth inside highly insulated channels in sort of tunnel-vision experiences in between their work life and home life experiences. And for many people across the globe (at least in the industrialized world) their home life experiences are strongly “mediated” by immense media conglomerates (and therefore for many people, much of their home life experience is likewise insulated from other people they might occasionally come into contact with).
As a result, there is a growing threat of an almost complete communication breakdown between people.
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