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The original was posted on /r/highstrangeness by /u/Glum_Bunch_6018 on 2025-11-08 02:31:41+00:00.

That Terrence McKenna post really got me reflecting on the general state of things today.

There’s so much to consume… so much information and it’s getting more chaotic by the day.

To quote a comment from u/mrdevlar, ‘imagine dropping a person from 200 years ago into today’s media environment. The complexity would crush them’

I know the real world is in flames, but how much of what we feel about reality is anchored in our experiences online? Identity, discourse, communities, parasocial relationships.

I feel like so much of me exists behind this black mirror…

We’re here looking for High Strangeness but honestly our way of life has become SO strange to the core human nature.

Idk what my point is. I just find it fascinating how desensitized we are… like one day my grandchildren might just say to me

‘Grandad, you have to blink twice for the link to activate and neurodial your brother’ and it’ll just be like… yeah ok.