Existential Comics

Turns out people create their own narratives without corporate media writing the script for them. There goes that myth.

Social media are like cocaine that way, acting as extreme personality intensifiers.

Hobbes, 1651: "The printing press is great because in some ways it finally put the control of information directly into the hands of the people. it's just too bad about the people though".

*production of information*. The control of information is privately held. the ability to take advantage of personal data on a vast scale also belongs primarily to corporations.

"Television is the first truly democratic art-form, made entirely by the people and in accordance with what the people want. The horror, of course, is what the people actually want." - St. Iforgothisname

sure, if "the people" is the execs of the social media companies

As someone whose name I never cease to forget once said... you can’t teach someone to swim without letting them get into the water..... it’s gonna be awkward and dangerous but nothing meaningful happens until they do.... #paraphrasing

Social media is a capitalist industry designed to be addictive and generate a profit.

It's a pretty good teachable moment about communism. "hey, we could all just walk away from Facebook any moment, there are billions of us and just a few thousand running this software. There are open source alternatives." "But it's so much funnnn"

America is the greatest city on the country and if you don't like it, you can get off. #maga