{"id":558,"date":"2026-01-04T16:09:30","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T16:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2026\/01\/04\/the-goon-squad-by-daniel-kolitz\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T16:09:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T16:09:30","slug":"the-goon-squad-by-daniel-kolitz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2026\/01\/04\/the-goon-squad-by-daniel-kolitz\/","title":{"rendered":"The Goon Squad, by Daniel Kolitz"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>From these companies\u2019 perspective, the ideal consumer would do literally nothing but goon, lose at gambling, and maybe watch other people play video games. You can try to fight this. You can read a book, pet a dog, buy a stupid box to lock away your phone. You can make a joke about the box, about the absurdity of your need for it. What do these companies care? They\u2019ve won. If they have their way\u2014and they usually do\u2014in time we will all be gooners, of a kind.<br \/>\n\u2014 Read on <a href=\"https:\/\/harpers.org\/archive\/2025\/11\/the-goon-squad-daniel-kolitz-porn-masturbation-loneliness\/\">harpers.org\/archive\/2025\/11\/the-goon-squad-daniel-kolitz-porn-masturbation-loneliness\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From these companies\u2019 perspective, the ideal consumer would do literally nothing but goon, lose at gambling, and maybe watch other people play video games. You can try to fight this. You can read a book, pet a dog, buy a stupid box to lock away your phone. You can make a joke about the box, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20,24,7,15,57,13,23,21,38],"class_list":["post-558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-attention","tag-computing","tag-consciousness","tag-culture","tag-porn","tag-propaganda","tag-reasoning","tag-smartphones","tag-society"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}