They were the ones who woke up already exhausted, like the night had been chewing on them. Alarm goes off, body moves, but nothing behind the eyes. A long gray transit from bed to bathroom to half-lit kitchen, every surface sticky with yesterday’s decisions not made. They had tried all the sanctioned miracles. White tablets,…
Tag: Addiction
We Die Young
In Seattle, there was a peculiar thing that happened in the late 80s and early 90s. The weather was always wet, the skies mostly gray, and the streets slicked with rain and possibility, though neither one seemed to go anywhere. And so it was, in the birthplace of grunge—when the amplifiers hummed with distortion and…
Now Do Social Media
In the digital age, where the abstract and the tangible blur into one another, the existence of social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok represents not merely a technological advance, but a profound and unsettling transformation in human behavior and consciousness. These platforms, armed with algorithms that dissect and manipulate human desires, have become…