Great read! Love your mention of the panopticon, a concept I've also been thinking a lot about lately. I see this topic discussed a lot for modern-day celebrities but not enough for regular people, so it's nice to see a piece that discusses that!
I love love love this post! I recently wrote something somewhat adjacent to it, about our collective love/hate relationship to internet anonymity (as in we love projecting onto anonymity until we can no longer extract what we need from it and then it all goes left). I appreciate the link between the fear of constantly being watched to people maintaining small numbers of close friends. There's so much good stuff to unpack here. Thanks for writing this.
Great read! Love your mention of the panopticon, a concept I've also been thinking a lot about lately. I see this topic discussed a lot for modern-day celebrities but not enough for regular people, so it's nice to see a piece that discusses that!
Thank you! And yeah I only seem to hear about celebrities too but we're truly held to a similar standard but without the safety net
I’m hearing among my friends that they all hate to be perceived. That’s how I feel sometimes too. Probably because of this! Great blog ✨
Thank you so much!
I love love love this post! I recently wrote something somewhat adjacent to it, about our collective love/hate relationship to internet anonymity (as in we love projecting onto anonymity until we can no longer extract what we need from it and then it all goes left). I appreciate the link between the fear of constantly being watched to people maintaining small numbers of close friends. There's so much good stuff to unpack here. Thanks for writing this.
Thank you so much! I'm glad you enjoyed it!