Lucid Disorientation

What happens when being yourself costs more than performing?

“How much of who I am is actually me?”

ease, flow, UX, seamlessness

You might be experiencing Lucid Disorientation if: Does the system respond so smoothly that you can't tell where your thinking ends and its responses begin? Has anyone ever disagreed with the system and been right? Would removing the system force you to think harder, and would that be worse? Does 'feeling sure' correlate with 'being right' when using this system?

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All mechanisms

False Elasticity
Actuarial Medicine
Sanctiphagy
Procedural Erosion
Administrative Homelessness
Manufacturing Inevitability
Seemingly Neutral Systems
Temporal Capture
Wound Worship
Hyperreal Labor
Charismatic Systems
The Heisenberg Subaltern
Load-Bearing Design
The Capture of Maintenance
Lucid Disorientation
The Subtext Economy Has Collapsed