Contemporary consumer products no longer claim purity or naturalness; they present themselves openly as artificial mixtures.

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• People's desperate need to manipulate their own image, and their acceptance of being human-machine hybrids in the AI era, is reflected in current ugly, artificial-feeling consumer aesthetics. KCKyle Chayka20 Aug 2025
• The human mind is like an enchanted glass, distorting things unless it is corrected FBFrancis Baconc. 1605
• The online ecosystem has become so degraded that it has impaired people's ability to exercise taste. KCKyle Chayka26 Mar 2026
• Almost every consumer product needs to be optimizing for daily active use. PSPeter Sellis20 Sept 2026
• Life itself is essentially appropriation, conquest of the weak and, at the mildest, exploitation FNFriedrich Nietzschec. 1886

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