"Social media", besides being anti-social, is a planet-wrapping estrangement/panopticon machine. Am I the only one, aside from maybe Steve Cutts, who notices that there is no "social fabric" left, and everything here in "The West" is tantamount to an internecine war?
(And I utterly resent the "Like" button!)
Cheers to you and yours in this festive season nonetheless!
"Social media", besides being anti-social, is a planet-wrapping estrangement/panopticon machine. Am I the only one, aside from maybe Steve Cutts, who notices that there is no "social fabric" left, and everything here in "The West" is tantamount to an internecine war?
(And I utterly resent the "Like" button!)
Cheers to you and yours in this festive season nonetheless!
I had to look up Steve Cutts, but of course as soon as I saw his drawings I recognized them. He is brilliant.
You are depressingly correct about the social fabric. I have been thinking of our situation as a broken social contract, but I think reference to the social fabric gets more to the heart of the matter.
The "like" button is rather Pavlovian, and I'm sure it forms part of the "meta-data" that is being gathered on all of us by those creepy social engineering brigades. I am guilty of using it all the same... but explaining why would be a longer, loopier comment.
Wherever you are, I hope you're enjoying the increasing minutes of sun since the three-day hiatus of the Solstice-Christmas period. It's time to start looking up!
"Social media", besides being anti-social, is a planet-wrapping estrangement/panopticon machine. Am I the only one, aside from maybe Steve Cutts, who notices that there is no "social fabric" left, and everything here in "The West" is tantamount to an internecine war?
(And I utterly resent the "Like" button!)
Cheers to you and yours in this festive season nonetheless!
I had to look up Steve Cutts, but of course as soon as I saw his drawings I recognized them. He is brilliant.
You are depressingly correct about the social fabric. I have been thinking of our situation as a broken social contract, but I think reference to the social fabric gets more to the heart of the matter.
The "like" button is rather Pavlovian, and I'm sure it forms part of the "meta-data" that is being gathered on all of us by those creepy social engineering brigades. I am guilty of using it all the same... but explaining why would be a longer, loopier comment.
Wherever you are, I hope you're enjoying the increasing minutes of sun since the three-day hiatus of the Solstice-Christmas period. It's time to start looking up!