The Social Media Groove (And an Update on the Experiment)

I’m continuing my series on Social Media and the Influencer™ Culture and how it’s disrupting our society. It’s turned us all into idea machines, into personal marketeers. It’s incentivized us to gain (F)ollowers and build (I)fluence by playing to the darker emotions—anger, fear, pride, lust, and the like. It’s created a culture of denial, and it’s led too many of us to believe that good ideas and deep work can’t be pushed forward without using the social media apparatus. In all of this, it’s cr...