Last night, I heard a livestreamer say, “It feels like we’ve entered an age of opposition.” He’s right—though perhaps not in the way he meant. The internet has brought people from vastly different social classes into the same digital space. Their levels of education, their worldviews, and even their basic vocabularies differ. Yet the algorithms that claim to connect us actually lock each of us inside invisible cages of cognition. Platform economies—driven by the logic of attention and profit—...