Just in case you needed more proof that the internet is dead and has been for a while …
I’m old enough to remember the initial push to get everyone online. The tech gurus promised us that once the web connected everybody, every idea would get a fair hearing in the marketplace of ideas, and public discourse would be forever free of censorship.
Instead, the public square has devolved into a lockstep collective swamped with ritual litanies led by trillion-dollar corporations. And everyone constantly spies on everyone at the behest of those same megacorps and increasingly deranged governments.
The anarcho-fascist hive mind is here, which is why it’s more vital than ever that members of Generations X and Y hand on memories of the pre-internet age.
And it’s equally crucial that others learn to unplug from the Pop Cult matrix.
