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The Empty Religions of Instagram [Content Made Simple]

Issue #212: Social media in 2025, Twitter spaces, and more!

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Chris Martin
Mar 10, 2021
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THE EMPTY RELIGIONS OF INSTAGRAM

How did influencers become our moral authorities?

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I have hardly prayed to God since I was a teenager, but the pandemic has cracked open inside me a profound yearning for reverence, humility and awe. I have an overdraft on my outrage account. I want moral authority from someone who isn’t shilling a memoir o…

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