Early Cultural Essays (2023–2024) is a collection of unpublished essays and cultural observations exploring media systems, consumer culture, social fragmentation, digital environments, optimization, and changing patterns of everyday life. Written prior to the formal development of the Reality Drift framework, these essays document an earlier stage of inquiry where recurring social, cultural, and technological patterns were being observed before being integrated into a broader conceptual structure. The collection is preserved as an archival record of intellectual development and provides historical context for later work related to Reality Drift, Cognitive Drift, Semantic Fidelity, Synthetic Realness, Filter Fatigue, and related concepts.
A. Jacobs (Mon,) studied this question.