How the Toxic Positivity of LinkedIn Serves the Status Quo

The poisonous online spectacle of hustle and grind threatens our mental health and forecloses the possibility of real change.

Joel
Modern Mythology
Published in
10 min readMar 23, 2022

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They Live On LinkedIn, a digital collage by Joel Nihlean

“The Spectacle cannot be understood as a mere visual deception produced by mass-media technologies. It’s a worldview that has actually been materialized, a

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Essayist, editor, drummer, and dad thinking about the climate crisis, politics, faith, political theology, policy, and punk rock. Texas forever.