optimize!
Taken together, they produce a life in which almost nothing is allowed to be simply what it is, because everything has been enrolled in the project of becoming someone better.
from the examined life in the age of optimization and
The tech elite want us to move farther and farther away from “life.” From bodies, particularly women’s bodies. From any sort of being and knowing that they do not utterly control. Through the looking glass, the sort of community-focused health efforts that encourage you to learn skills that “might save a life” give way to a machinery that heralds the rejection of such initiatives.