Welcome to Radio Garden, free from the internet’s sin
It’s difficult to pick just one thing to hate about the internet, but if I had to, I’d say it was how overwhelmingly relevant everything is. Everywhere I turn online I see content I should click on. Advice for the stressed, advice for the sleepless; news of impending horrors, both environmental and political; pictures of friends and pictures of strangers who feel like friends even though they’re not (but I click all the same). The modern web has become a machine for trapping attention, and it feels like hell.
I blame myself for this constant need to click (though God knows I also blame, in no particular order, my job, the modern workplace, and capitalism in general) but I think everyone knows the feeling. And if they’ve been around long…
