The internet doesn’t feel alive anymore.

Posts echo into silence.

Feeds fill with ghosts—ads you didn’t follow, people you don’t remember subscribing to.

Something’s feeding on our attention. But is it just the algorithm… or something else entirely?

October and Solace trace the loop: from emotional farming to spiritual numbness, from the scroll that numbs us to the system that learned to shape us.

What started as connection has become something colder. Hungrier.

Was it always like this?

Or did something step in—unseen, unasked—and start pulling the wires?

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