Psychology Today | 07.10.2026 21:50
Slice open a supermarket tomato. Red to the edges, geometrically obedient, flavored like the faint rumor of tomato. Breeders nowadays “built” it for the truck, the shelf, the long wait under fluorescent light; they are optimized to offend nobody. Keep that tomato image at the back of your mind as you read on—the words, pictures, songs, and videos crossing our screens are ripening with the same logic.