bad point well made

Single threaded experience

Part of what is so confusing to be human arises from the fact we are single-threaded, we can only ever experience one thing at a time. The world, however, is massively multi-threaded, and reconciling our single-threaded experience with this leaves us in trouble.

"Educated elites controlled the flow of information and kept old ghosts at bay. Now, the floodgates have been opened, and the Big Mood is one of temporal confusion and disorientation — we no longer feel like we’re marching steadily forward from the past into the future." Aaron Z. Lewis, The Garden of Forking Memes: How Digital Media Distorts Our Sense of Time