The Perpetual Projection

Keeping Up With Reality · Nov 8, 2026 · 20m · transcript

In this massive episode of Keeping Up With Reality, we dismantle the ultimate crisis of modern digital existence: experiential alienation through perpetual projection. How did we move from living our lives for their intrinsic value to performing our existence for a global digital audience twenty-four hours a day?From the absurdity of destination tourism photo lines and camera-first culinary design to theatrical gender reveals and third-person self-surveillance, we explore what happens when we replace the living of life with the continuous documentation of it. Join us as we examine how to…