{"id":713,"date":"2026-06-03T05:33:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T05:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2026\/06\/03\/we-are-living-in-pinocchios-world-on-my-om\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T05:33:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T05:33:10","slug":"we-are-living-in-pinocchios-world-on-my-om","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2026\/06\/03\/we-are-living-in-pinocchios-world-on-my-om\/","title":{"rendered":"We Are Living in Pinocchio\u2019s World \u2013 On my Om"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The grifters and the hucksters and the influencers selling impossible things succeed because audiences reward certainty and punish doubt. They honor confidence and resist complication. A clean story about a genius who will fix everything travels faster than a difficult story about tradeoffs. The Field of Miracles stays open because people keep wanting to bury their coins there.<\/p>\n<p>The Fox and the Cat is how the whole thing works.<\/p>\n<p>Pinocchio becomes real, becomes human, only after he accepts obligation. Collodi is saying that it is important to have self-governance. It is necessary to choose the difficult truth over the easy satisfying one. That doesn\u2019t jibe with everything the attention economy is selling, dopamine hits delivered so frequently that it becomes hard to distinguish stimulation from autonomy.<br \/>\n\u2014 Read on <a href=\"https:\/\/om.co\/2026\/05\/25\/we-are-living-in-pinocchios-world\/\">om.co\/2026\/05\/25\/we-are-living-in-pinocchios-world\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The grifters and the hucksters and the influencers selling impossible things succeed because audiences reward certainty and punish doubt. They honor confidence and resist complication. A clean story about a genius who will fix everything travels faster than a difficult story about tradeoffs. The Field of Miracles stays open because people keep wanting to bury [&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":[20,99,24,7,10,111,137,13,21,77,38,65],"class_list":["post-713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-attention","tag-boredom","tag-computing","tag-consciousness","tag-democracy","tag-laziness","tag-pinocchio","tag-propaganda","tag-smartphones","tag-social-media","tag-society","tag-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713","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=713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}