Rejecting information channels shaped by propaganda elevates computer and phone screens to symbols of liberation.
But the dominant gesture on smartphone screens is scrolling. We scroll through social media feeds, news apps, dating services, and housing listings. Instead of television's rigid totalitarian grid, we're now ruled by social media's sticky algorithms.
Digital life becomes endless procrastination – micro-interactions with fragmented information bits. Occasionally, these fragments align into meaning, like iron filings forming magnetic field lines. But more often, they resemble clouds – formless, disconnected, and fleeting, dissolving without a trace into the forgetful blue, the signature color of the world's most popular social networks.