Our lives — and all the conveniences we need to live them well — have never moved at a faster pace. If my eyeliner runs out, I can have a stranger drop off a new one at my door within the hour. If I wanted to, I could have my facial features altered in a 30-minute appointment. An AI chatbot can write an essay for me in seconds. I get annoyed when the circle spins more than once on my HBO Max app. And I’m not the only one. We have successfully been conditioned by capitalism and the attention economy to expect rapid results.
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The pace of activism in an online world
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Our lives — and all the conveniences we need to live them well — have never moved at a faster pace. If my eyeliner runs out, I can have a stranger drop off a new one at my door within the hour. If I wanted to, I could have my facial features altered in a 30-minute appointment. An AI chatbot can write an essay for me in seconds. I get annoyed when the circle spins more than once on my HBO Max app. And I’m not the only one. We have successfully been conditioned by capitalism and the attention economy to expect rapid results.