The Invisible Apocalypse of the Normalcy Bias
The Sweet Poison of Information Feed
Cognitive Load Theory | Cognitive Load | Infoxication | Cognitive Offloading | Information Overload | Brain Rot | Technostress | Attention Economy | Mental Fatigue | Digital Habits
Where is the breathing white space of human cognition?
How to Navigate This Article
I curated this piece in the style of stream of consciousness: plenty of white space to think and breathe — naturally.
I honor the intelligence of my readers and refuse to impose a rigid structure of thought upon the sovereign field of a fellow being.
This article is a hyperlinked rainbow — a non-linear gallery of keywords, imagery, emojis, and hashtags.
Move through the text as a digital nomad; use the hyperlinks as functional portals to bridge disparate ideas and unearth hidden layers.
There is no dictated sequence here. The narrative lives in the gaps between the points; your task is to connect the dots.
Consider this a flowing river — a stream that refuses to be static.
This piece is not a memorial to the past, but a breathing organism that expands in real-time.
I will continue to weave new meaning, anchor fresh thresholds, and layer evolving frequencies into this spectrum as the global landscape shifts.
Treat this as a persistent retreat; return often, for the ‘now’ of this article is eternally evolving.
The ink never dries here — it only grows deeper.
Sometimes, I wonder:
What if the internet had not existed?
What if Yuval Noah Harari had been toiling in a dusty library in the 1980s?
Humanity would have been saved from another bestseller manufactured in the internet factory and mass-distributed by the WEF.
Think
Ponder
&
Research
How Yuval Noah Harari has been enjoying the cake of the Internet on the bandwidth of the crony capitalism?
Data is not Information
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Information is not Knowledge
&
Knowledge is not Wisdom
Human brain is not a warehouse to stockpile the library of information, squeezed in bestsellers.
Where is the breathing garden in the books of:
Robert Greene
&
Yuval Noah Harari
Gorging world’s masterpieces into one bestseller and hogging 10+ different subjects into the feasting icons of the global gilding are NOT the hallmark of human genius:
Robert Greene (American author)
Yuval Noah Harari (Israeli medievalist and military historian)
Think 🤔
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The Beautiful Myth of Sapiens: How Harari Sold Us a Story About Why We Love Stories
Are you thinking❓
The Glossy Horizon: Why Harari’s Vision of the Future is a Product, not an intellectual exercise?
Think 🤔
Intrinsic Cognitive Load | Extraneous Cognitive Load | Germane Cognitive Load | Working Memory Capacity | Schema Acquisition | Digital Minimalism
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The constellation is now yours.
I have provided the points, but you have curated the meaning. May the gaps you navigated today continue to breathe and expand within your own sovereign field.
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