Semel in anno licet insanire
I’m pissed off.
I’m fed up.
Facebook has you.
Google owns you.
Twitter manipulates you.
The true Matrix.
Not the dark, suffocating world of sentient arthropod-like machines entrapping Neo and the rest of humanity inside millions of impossible life-support bio-pods, turning them into a giant of network of dreamers, of sentients beings alive in a completely split plane of reality, while their bodies lie at the mercy of a mad Gigerian abstract hallucination.
No.
This is a matrix viscous with all of the lowest human interactions, a matrix that binds victims and executioners, preys and predators like never before. But worse, a matrix of human beings hell-bent on injustice, intent on preying, abusing, bullying, seducing, manipulating, corrupting, hate-mongering, war-mongering, where people already plastered and zombified by day-time television, go to keep shoveling down their throats instant-grat digital addictions. The same people who are to reality TV, mass gaming and the ritualistic mass hysteria of Sunday football.
We’re all in it.
Me included.
All of us.
We’re all so completely alienated from reality, that those with real power daily come and rob us all, then they happily and literally laugh all the way to the bank.
Of course, they laugh.
They own the banks!
Is it a giant Internet lie? Are we ensnared, trapped in this digital web of lies and truths sometimes impossible to tell apart?
Or are we being set free by it?
Because, of course the symmetric opposite to what I just said is also unequivocally true in many cases: that there are thousands of people who have in fact survived and broadcast horrific truths about a plethora of events and issues across the board, who’d have stood no chance otherwise.
From Wikileaks to the Arab Spring.
So, the main internet utilities of our time, and more to the point even, in some cases: anonymity, the great Good or the Great Evil of our century?
The Internet. Technology itself.
Or more rarefied, commercial niche extrusions of this giant multi-limbed, all-seeing being. Being…? No, perhaps better, ecosystem.
I digress again…
Facebook.
Twitter.
Google.
Good or bad?
This age-old question has been asked many times before, and from the invention of fireworks and onward, all the way to the Manhattan project, the widely-accepted, more popular answer has often been that…well, it depends on who uses the new discovery, the new tool and what for. Because the tool, or the weapon in itself, or the technology are not evil, right? Just how you may use them.
So, are the only things that change just some of the elements, namely the human elements, in this story?
Human beings: the true unpredictable factor in any psychostoriographic equation.
<**** From Isaac Asimov :: psychostoriography is conceived as a future area of mathematics which will be able to statistically predict social and historical outcomes, based on certain proven equations. These today would be called algorithms. ****>
So, who knows…we have many new algorithms now that are actually not far off…
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