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WAKE ISLAND IS A CONVERSATION SERIES ABOUT THE DARKENING UNDERCURRENTS OF CONTEMPORARY CULTURE 🕳️ 🐇
Wake Island
Joined July 2010
Wake Island Substack | January Dispatch Yet man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward. - Job 5:7
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Is our interest in these images more than prurient, or is prurience, perhaps, a form of worship? A desire to look at the world rather than away from it, even if we can muster no true buy-in, no sense as to where we, the viewer, actually stand within the frothing morass?
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Our fantasies play out in reverse, the 100 cumshots rushing back into the cocks of pigeon-toed men shuffling in line to claim their fragment of connection with an algorithm. There's no excitement, only an exhausting math of bodies and numbers, endless consumption…
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Are we dreaming of mating with other humans on the other side of the computer, or actually dreaming (or more than dreaming) of mating with the computer itself, with the image of the other human acting only as a sort of lubricant? Subscribe to the WAKE ISLAND Substack
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In 2025, I want to move past the binary of Books = Good, Internet = Bad and read everything as literature. The Internet’s sickness has a bookish quality—a delirium signaling we’ve already crossed into a fantasy realm, the “Companion World.” Truth vs. fiction? That battle’s over.
Wake Island Substack | January Dispatch Yet man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward. - Job 5:7
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This year, inner and outer life blur—what’s real feels quaint to ask. Are we receiving images or projecting them? Everything glows, sickening yet thrilling, demanding a new kind of gratitude. Thanks for what? For the images. For whoever—or whatever—is producing them. Ourselves?
Wake Island Substack | January Dispatch Yet man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward. - Job 5:7
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What’s it like to pour your heart out online, hit upload, then sit alone, swallowing tears, waiting? Do you check the comments right away or pace, eat, then look? Do you feel the screen buzz with hate before deleting? Regret? Just a dumb idea? Still crying?
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RT @ok_but_still: i'm a 95 pound woman taking my aggressive dog for a lunge-toward-the-neighbors walk around the block
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RT @JustineBateman: Paul K, the host, is a very talented photographer and writer. His podcast is off-the-main-track and just interesting. C…
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This is the water And this is the well. Drink full and descend. The horse is the white of the eyes and dark within.
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