“We're all basically living in our own version of The Truman Show”
Agree
- Algorithms curate everything we see
- Social media creates filtered reality bubbles
- We perform for invisible audiences constantly
- Surveillance tracks our every move
- Marketing manufactures our desires
Disagree
- We have genuine agency and choices
- Real relationships aren't scripted
- Paranoia isn't the same as insight
- We can break our own patterns
- Life has too much chaos to be staged
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