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Look at Me - by Adam Tanous - View from the West

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Here’s what not to do when you wake up in the middle of the night and it seems you’ve had a full night sleep but really haven’t: scroll through random Instagram accounts. It is the deepest of rat holes, and, I promise, you will never find the rat. You will find people doing incredibly stupid things, most often successfully (the unsuccessful ones don’t get filmed, or if they do, the phones on which the stupidity was recorded ends up in a plastic bag on the bedside table of a hospital room.) The rat hole starts off innocuously enough—for me, a single swipe down from whatever site I happen to be on. The first scroll or two are usually somewhat interesting: ridiculous but beautiful skiing clips in powdery mountains, big wave surfing in places I would love to be. Then it devolves into mountain bike tricks in the desert, then crashes of mountain bike tricks in the desert, then all sorts of crashes on bikes, skis, 18-wheeler trucks rolling over, and more. And suddenly I’m watching monster tru

Look at Me Instagram Nation hurtles toward selfie-annihilation Adam Tanous Mar 17, 2024 7 2 Share Here’s what not to do when you wake up in the middle of the night and it seems you’ve had a full night sleep but really haven’t: scroll through random Instagram accounts. It is the deepest of rat holes, and, I promise, you will never find the rat. You will find people doing incredibly stupid things, most often successfully (the unsuccessful ones don’t get filmed, or if they do, the phones on which the stupidity was recorded ends up in a plastic bag on the bedside table of a hospital room.) The rat

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