## Metadata - Author: [[Irvine Welsh]] - Full Title: Dead Men's Trousers - Category: #books ## Highlights - it’s the sound of you dying — you’re a prisoner of your own self-confirming, self-restraining algorithms, allowing Google, Facebook, Twitter and Amazon to bind you up in psychic chains and force-feed you a crappy, one-dimensional version of yourself, which you embrace as it’s the only affirmation on offer — these are your friends — these are your associates — these are your enemies — this is your life — you need chaos, an external force tae shock you oot ay your complacency — you need this because you no longer have the will or the imagination to ([Location 233](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07CWGQJTJ&location=233)) - Tags: [[blue]]