As I get ready to leave, the grand illusionist offers an intriguing theory about why the internet is more obsessed with cats than dogs.“I think we know that Facebook is turning us into trained dogs,” he says. “We know we’re being trained. We can feel ourselves being turned into trained circus animals. And we long for that independence that cats show. So when you look at a cat video, what you’re really seeing is this receding identity that you want to cling to and find again.”

Source: Soothsayer in the Hills Sees Silicon Valley’s Sinister Side – The New York Times