Tim Bouma on Nostr: “Beware the day your soul becomes a statistic. When your joy is graphed, your grief ...

“Beware the day your soul becomes a statistic.

When your joy is graphed,
your grief sampled,
your dreams ranked by engagement—
you will still breathe,
but it will not be life.

You will walk through a world optimized,
but never felt.

Your memory will fade into metadata,
Your choices, predicted before you choose.

The rhythm of the heart will be a blip on a dashboard.
Your voice, a dataset.
Your story, a variable.

And you will wonder—
in a world that measures everything,

who remembers how to feel?

Do not sell your chaos for certainty.
Do not trade your soul for signal.”