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Comment by dougmwne

I have an odd image that I think provides a good mental model of this. Bear with me...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWR0AS2rW48

These metronomes start out tick-tocking in their own time, but each affects the other until they are all locked in perfect sync.

This is what global digital media culture is doing to us, subtle nudges to conform to a single global monoculture, so gradual that it's hard to see it happening until it's happened.

parent dougmwne 8 years ago

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