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You’re a young man and you’re very angry. Your world is governed by crumbling ideology. You feel excluded from the world around you. You know someone fucked you over but you don’t know who.
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There are people who will tell you what you want to hear. They will tell beautiful stories that absolve you of guilt — and point you in
a different direction.
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They will tell you things that no one else is telling you and this will sound like truth to your ears. They will blame the others and you will believe them.
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They’ve always existed, but they have a powerful weapon. By adopting the media platforms you
use the most and exploiting built-in malicious
algorithms, these people can find you — your
data knows you better than you know yourself.
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They will find you at your lowest point, when you feel most distant from the ones around you. Their pictures and statistics and beautiful stories will become more distant from your reality with every day. So will you.
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One day they might ask you to do something that would seem unthinkable to the old you. But by then, you’ll be different. You’ll do what they tell you to do. By then, you’ll be happy to do it.
