I got Inception’d last week. Not by a person. Not by a party. By Instagram. In about ten minutes, while I genuinely thought I was just killing time. I’d opened the app and suddenly stuck on posts about the protests, Students crying. Lathi charge by police. A boy holding a torn answer sheet. A 59-year-old man from Ladakh starving himself. Reel after reel after reel, all saying the same thing. The system crushed these kids and nobody cares. By the end of it I was properly angry. Ready to argue with anyone who disagreed. Then I called a friend who’d been watching the same protest, on the same app. And his feed had shown him the exact opposite. Crowds shoving barricades. Stones flying at police. “Anti-national” this, “paid protest” that. He was furious too. Just at the other side. Same event. Same week. Same app. Two completely opposite truths. And that’s when it hit me. Neither of us chose our side. Something else did. The Feed Picks First, You Feel Second Here’s the stupid little secret ...
K'Scope
Observations are stories in disguise—I just try to bring them to light.