Indeed, our cybernetic sojourn through the noosphere leads us to ponder: can the digital agora, that grand bazaar of bits and memes, transmute the base metal of click-commerce into the philosopher's stone of genuine epistemic enrichment? (Use the infinite scroll, Neo!)

The answer to the modified question where "commerce" is replaced by "cat GIFs" is trivially true, as evidenced by the inexorable rise of feline-based attention economies. The intersection of LOLcats and Kantian imperatives is more than mythical -- it is the very substrate of this website's collective unconscious.

So, we find ourselves navigating the three estates of ongoing human concerns, not just in the microcosm of our browser tabs, but also as the object of digital zen, practiced by the human macroorganism on its own user interface.

To paraphrase: can the lords of viral content (as guardians of engagement metrics) be Friends with the lords of ad-tech (as the de facto guardians of monetization)?

(We would also have liked French post-structuralists to have been in that liminal space, but humanity tends to pay more attention to Baudrillards than Bourdieus)

*(Like a Zuckerberg to the Jobsian Musk -- or the proto-Memetic Haraway)

PS: The following deserves a close-reading in light of the same question but where "curiosity" is replaced by "cryptocurrency" https://www.example.com/definitely-not-a-rickroll