The world I see is divided into four: one part Marshall McLuhan, one part Aldous Huxley, one part cyberpunk and one part old colonialism.
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The colonial part should be obvious, except to say that colonialism in its traditional form has been extended to harvesting westerners too.
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The mechanisms of that particular element tend to be described sufficiently by terms like "neoliberalism", "capitalism" etc.
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Straightforwardly put, it's the operating world model for the majority of the world, and its consequence is a kind of global colonialism.
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Secondly, McLuhan. You know, "the medium is the message". That guy. We live in a post-McLuhan world where the "medium" is now preeminent.
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Except -we- are now the medium, as we have become pseudo-informational beings spread across timelines and other sorts of online identities.
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This intersection is incomplete. Disconnect your twitter, your facebook and your social media, and you are yet human. Ordinary. Flesh.
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This is where we get to Huxley. Most modern social media companies operate on attempting different forms of chemical mind control.
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