u/Adventurous_Rain3436

Hello everyone i wrote an essay exploring how words like “performative” and “larping” mutated from relatively harmless concepts into accusations tied to authenticity, identity and legitimacy online.

It starts with social masking and performance as normal parts of human behaviour, then spirals into internet culture, fandoms, meme ecosystems, pseudo intellectualism, systems thinking aesthetics, The Matrix, JJK (a popular anime) brain rot, influencer authenticity, symbolic participation and why modern culture became hyper suspicious of sincerity itself.

Basically an attempt to trace how the internet blurred the line between embodiment and performance until even authenticity became aestheticised and marketable.

Full essay in the link 😊

Not sure who needs to hear it but it really helps me with integrating multiple disciplines and may help with your paralysis.
Less about what field of study should I diligently cram to mastery and more exploring questions and observing how dynamics play out. You’d be seriously surprised to see how many connections you make across so many disciplines without it feeling “forced.”
It also makes learning a lot faster 🙂
Couple that with learning technical skills from practical experience and you have yourself a fantastic feedback loop where you can always stress test ideas against reality to see what holds.

Edit: Also writing, thinking and learning. If you progressively improve those simultaneously they start to blur into one.
Haven’t gone down the neuroscience rabbit hole of it fully but I’ve observed it within myself.