Love Island, Rave Culture, and What We Let Shape Us
In this episode of Note 2 Self, Saskia is mourning the end of Love Island and asking a bigger question: is reality television harmless catharsis, or is it quietly shaping what we consider normal? Before diving in, she shares a truly absurd full-circle update involving the man who ghosted her twice a decade ago, a LinkedIn DM, and the most corporate fuckboy greeting imaginable.
What begins as a Love Island season wrap becomes a deeper look at why viewers become so emotionally invested in strangers on television. Through Plato, Aristotle, cultivation theory, and the online pile-ons directed at…
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