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by dependsontheq
878 days ago
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In the case of Atlas Obscura I never took the articles very serious, the are all on the border between art, myth and story. I thought that was the appeal. I think something like Atlas Obscura will be the internet of the future, wonderful collections of weirdness, with no way to discern truth. |
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So just like real life, then.
To be clear, I believe that objective truth exists. I also believe that people have a lot of stories. I'm from a small town, the size where you could learn a story about pretty much every family, and a lot of the stories would intertwine, or be very similar to each other, forming a shared reality among neighbors. I'm sure we could talk a good long time about the social implications of that sense of shared reality.
I think there's something deeply uncomfortable about having too many people available in your life to form a shared reality. I feel like that discomfort is a big driver of modern angst.