a grocery clerk talks about alienation

these blog excerpts introduce a project by Romius T. that examines how modern digital platforms exert a new form of power through computational steering. The author argues that contemporary technology has moved beyond the "means of production" to control the means of modulation, influencing human desire, attention, and even physical sensation. This creates a state called Alienation 2.0, where individuals are estranged from their own internal decision-making processes before they can even consciously reflect on them. By synthesizing Marxist theory with modern neuroscience and cognitive psychology, the text outlines a struggle to maintain human agency against systems designed to make automated compliance feel like comfort. Ultimately, the sources advocate for the defense of friction—such as delay and opacity—as a necessary political resistance against total behavioral management.

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