The web tells a story too. The disembodied, fragmented nature of the internet is not merely a quirk but a fundamental part of the web’s nature and, thus, part of the story it tells. As we will see, the form of the internet has radically altered how we read, think, feel, and believe. The digital liturgies of the web and social media train us to invest ultimate authority in our own stories and experiences as they separate us from the objective givenness of the embodied world. How is it that in a supposedly relativistic, you-do-you age, so many people have been shamed or “dragged” online,
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