The World is My Medium
analogous to expression “The World is My Oyster”
Whereas “the world is my oyster” acknowledges the world as a set of conditions which creates a result, “the world is my medium” conceptualizes the world as a canvass upon which the self expresses itself.
From this point of view, one way the self could express itself would also be to consume the world (much in the manner that an embryo normally consumes the amniotic fluid within which it is nurtured towards [much later] life after birth) — yet whereas of course in the natural world evolutionary development (also) optimizes for conditions after birth, in modern societies across the globe the world-as-medium is commonly viewed as disposable, if not even completely ignored altogether. [1] From this point of view, perhaps the only way the world is recognized at all is as a population of (potential) consumers of the self’s own expressions.
Indeed: In contrast to the relatively decentralized natural evolution, since economic evolution and global competitive markets have lead to ever decreasing marginal profits, relatively centralized and extremely large (“global player”) corporations increasingly develop technologies optimized towards economies of scale. Also, improvements in Human Brain Conditioner technology in the modern era also increasingly optimize towards increasing consumerism and thereby maximizing profits by optimally maximizing consumption.
Let me give a concrete example of how this plays out “In Real Life” (“IRL”). This week, I discovered an apparently widely popular article published about a decade ago, yet which proposed a business plan which was shown to be faulty only just a few months ago (see “Ask them to convince you and mean it” [ https://fuckwith.news.blog/2026/02/03/ask-them-to-convince-you-and-mean-it ] ).
In this case, Human Brain Conditioner technology presented one person (“the speaker”) with a stage in front of a large audience of adolescents, many of whom had most probably consumed vast amounts of media which promote consumption via various forms of advertising (including presumably a significant amount of propaganda promoting the use of weapons as a means to engage in acts of heroism such as “vigilante justice”). Likewise, Human Brain Conditioner technology also provided easy access to potentially lethal weapons with such high levels of accuracy that it was possible for one member of this large audience of adolescents to use the event as a stage of his own to practice vigilante justice as an act of heroism by brutally killing the speaker.
Many modern institutions are involved in such events and business activities — indeed, they’re widely interwoven throughout the fabric of many modern societies. Yet despite the diversity of instantiations, I nonetheless (believe to) clearly see one monolithic result — namely the transition from living in the world the way an oyster lives in its habitat to living in a world in which our self-realization, our self-actualization and similar further extensions of our “self”-concept are increasingly becoming viewed as disposable products and services which are increasingly being consumed according to some more or less shady algorithms fewer and fewer people have chosen themselves.
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