The BuzzFeedification of Mental Health - by P.E. Moskowitz
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Did you know that the founder of BuzzFeed predicted that we'd all be yelling at each other about ADHD 25 years ago (kinda)?
This post is free. Most are not. Subscribe now. Let’s start with one of my favorite random internet facts: Jonah Peretti, one of the original founders of BuzzFeed, wrote a paper that foretold the site’s entire business model, and the business model of much of the internet. In 1996, as an undergrad at UC Santa Cruz, Peretti submitted a journal article titled Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Contemporary Visual Culture and The Acceleration of Identity Formation and Dissolution. In the paper, Peretti wrote that capitalism would need to create an ever-growing number of micro-identities for people…
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