Kudzai Kutukwa on Nostr: Consumption is the new opiate of the masses. We don’t need bread and circuses ...

Consumption is the new opiate of the masses. We don’t need bread and circuses anymore. We have content. An endless, beige, algorithmic slurry of hot takes, rebooted franchises, and true crime documentaries that turn the agony of real women into your Tuesday evening entertainment. You watch a series about a serial killer, then you scroll past a genocide, then you buy a candle that smells like a library. All within sixty seconds. All with the same flat, dead-eyed click. You have perfected the art of feeling without acting. It is necrophilia for emotions. You cuddle the corpse of empathy so you don’t have to breathe life into it. Thoughts and prayers. The two most cowardly words in the English language. A spell you cast to ward off the terrifying responsibility of doing something hard.