I only move in Circles now.
Much of our online activity is premised on social engagement. In actuality it’s a time spent watching our own alienated identity performed through threads of “interests”. This is observed and generated by apathetic algorithms that use our desire for mirrors to serve an omnipotent capitalist benefit. Causation is moot for code. Correlation is enough to know that the probability that you think the same as Donna Watson goes up with each dog meme you scroll by and like. The passive game of social media and online behaviors reify the actions defined as “habits'' and “thoughts”, and since a person is an environment of these actions and more, that digital consumption affects who we are. The time you spend looking, clicking, or publically affirming your emotional reaction dictates your digi-conciousness, an identity that assumes your future based on who else lives and lived in your present. We take time to reflect and affect our [normative prefix]conscious, so why not our digi-conciousness? To that point, why not the digi-conciousness of all the other lives that correlate to our own?