Infrastructure for consuming

A lot of digital technology is not infrastructure for living. Endless feeds, notifications, commentary, product cycles, arguments, and updates. Remove it, and your life might become less convenient or less "connected", but it doesn't necessarily collapse. It may improve. Habit to send minute updates to someone, banking and other nonsense? 100 EUR smartphone and you can do all of that without friction like you can do it on 1000 EUR machine.

Corporations release new products every year. Reviewers are glorified whores for a hardware cartel. The audience eats it up because they need a daddy figure to justify their vanity purchases. You start to believe that these changes meaningfully alter your live. Camera is better. You took pictures and save them to the same cloud storage like photos you took ten years ago. Untouched collection of waste. Better CPU on a phone. Seriously.

First corporations control the web. Then Google destroys the web. Then social media destroys society. Then Microsoft owns everything. Then Cloudflare controls the infrastructure. Now AI is destroying the internet.

Two decades later and magically everything is still not destroyed, but more capable than years ago. Some random nobody with cheap old laptop can run a Linux server, access enormous amounts of knowledge, use open-source software, create websites with AI, publish it globally, and communicate with practically anyone on the planet. A capability that would have required serious money and technical expertise decades ago is now accessible to many.

But! You. Yes. You are special, unique being with specific high-end needs, of course. You need the best tech to match your superb personality. You need a better camera to shot a bird and then upload compressed 50kB image to "evil" social media. To share goodness of your life before you complain about the collapse of the society. From an iPhone, saved in Google drive, emailed from Gmail and published over Cloudflare. You partizan.

Phone off, computer off, life continues. Apps are pacifiers. News paywalls gate useless political theater, curated anxiety and elite-approved propaganda nobody needs. The "doom" isn't about the internet or technology. It's about you having nothing else to care about. Your identity is wrapped in digital tribalism. Take it away and you're empty. You are just bored and want to feel important by declaring collapse.

There is a chance, that you are just dumbass.