You've Got Self

How the Internet cultivates expressive individualism in all of us.

Note: This essay first appeared in the Spring 2022 edition of the 9Marks Journal.

Christopher Nolan’s 2010 film Inception tells a story about a technology called “dream-sharing,” invented at some indeterminate point in the future, that allows participants to enter into one another’s dreams via their subconscious. The main character, played by Leonardo D…