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This is one of the main addictive chemicals of most streaming services: Recommend a handful songs—out of millions!—that feel uniquely personal but in fact are just what everyone else is hearing, too. If a Passive or Auxiliary listener lets the algorithmic Spotify Radio play songs based on Tom Petty’s “Breakdown,” the results are almost purely based on chronology, tempo, and feel. Gone are the filigrees and the autobiography of the song and how it existed in the world to *you*, the listener. Instead, everyone’s experience is now the same.
The Woes of Being Addicted to Streaming Services | Pitchfork
Jeremy D. Larson
Each subculture has an implicit understanding of its “ideological conversion funnel”. This phrase, borrowed from digital marketing, refers to the stages that people go through on the way to becoming a True Believer, from first contact with a mysterious meme to full-on understanding of a grand narrative. The conversion process is known to the in-group, but largely illegible to outsiders.
How Digital Media Distorts Our Sense of Time
aaronzlewis.com
You probably found that after putting it to music, your thought isn’t hooking you as much. And notice you haven’t challenged the thought; you haven’t tried to get rid of it, debated whether it’s true or false, or tried to push it away and replace it with a positive thought. So what happened? By taking the thought and putting it to music, you saw its “true nature”; you realized that, like the lyrics of a song, it is nothing more or less than a string of words.
The Happiness Trap
Harris, Russ
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