IS THIS THE BOOK OF THE COUNTER-COUNTERCULTURE? (ASKING FOR A FRIEND)
You've
clearly arrived here by accident. For that, I won't apologize.
When I get stressed, sometimes I create a simple graphic which expresses my concern du jour. It might be something about things which I want to preserve, even in only memory form. It might be political - or more often, "anti-political." I might then post it on that wretched repository of the lame, Farcebook. It depends. I suppose it is like folding a thousand origami paper cranes. Eventually, it makes me feel better, but that's about all. It doesn't change the world. The greatest lie of the social media years has been that there is no politically motivated algorithm. It's ALL about manipulation. It's our technological equivalent of what kept the citizens of ancient Rome happy - "bread, and circuses".
So this is a personal book, a frolic, something that started as a diary-style series of posts I've made on Farcebook during the course of the last few years. It's my knee-jerk reaction to the elite who have been using their power and capital to marginalize the humanity of entire societies. To the evils of politics, politicians, public non-servants, the political apparatchiks and the elite's nomenklatura who have made it all possible.
I didn't write it for you. I wrote it for myself.
(If you want to read the book and not buy it, that's fine.)
Social Media exploits and insults us shamelessly, so why shouldn't we disrespect and exploit them in return? Why shouldn't we tell them they're scoundrels to their face?
In years to come, we will realize that the compliant Imperial Media were as much a part of the leftist beserkers as Marx, Lenin and Stalin have been evils of the last century. The MAGA we needed to have been more afraid of all along isn't Trump's, it's Meta, Apple, Google and Amazon.
The only thing that upsets the Left beserkers more is that others discover that their critics may have been right all along. My fault for not realizing it sooner. The "Guilty Thoughts" in the subtitle, well, you'll have to work that out yourself. Start at regret.
I had been thinking of pulling the plug on Farcebook and this book became an expression - to myself - of what I preferred not be entirely lost when I am gone. Everyone has been told (by those same Social Media, actually) that nothing ceases to exist once it's on the internet, someone has it on their server somewhere. But when you resign from Facebook, and delete your account, who bothers to look?
What's it matter?
When I get stressed, sometimes I create a simple graphic which expresses my concern du jour. It might be something about things which I want to preserve, even in only memory form. It might be political - or more often, "anti-political." I might then post it on that wretched repository of the lame, Farcebook. It depends. I suppose it is like folding a thousand origami paper cranes. Eventually, it makes me feel better, but that's about all. It doesn't change the world. The greatest lie of the social media years has been that there is no politically motivated algorithm. It's ALL about manipulation. It's our technological equivalent of what kept the citizens of ancient Rome happy - "bread, and circuses".
So this is a personal book, a frolic, something that started as a diary-style series of posts I've made on Farcebook during the course of the last few years. It's my knee-jerk reaction to the elite who have been using their power and capital to marginalize the humanity of entire societies. To the evils of politics, politicians, public non-servants, the political apparatchiks and the elite's nomenklatura who have made it all possible.
I didn't write it for you. I wrote it for myself.
(If you want to read the book and not buy it, that's fine.)
Social Media exploits and insults us shamelessly, so why shouldn't we disrespect and exploit them in return? Why shouldn't we tell them they're scoundrels to their face?
In years to come, we will realize that the compliant Imperial Media were as much a part of the leftist beserkers as Marx, Lenin and Stalin have been evils of the last century. The MAGA we needed to have been more afraid of all along isn't Trump's, it's Meta, Apple, Google and Amazon.
The only thing that upsets the Left beserkers more is that others discover that their critics may have been right all along. My fault for not realizing it sooner. The "Guilty Thoughts" in the subtitle, well, you'll have to work that out yourself. Start at regret.
I had been thinking of pulling the plug on Farcebook and this book became an expression - to myself - of what I preferred not be entirely lost when I am gone. Everyone has been told (by those same Social Media, actually) that nothing ceases to exist once it's on the internet, someone has it on their server somewhere. But when you resign from Facebook, and delete your account, who bothers to look?
What's it matter?
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