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+++On Facebook and Twitter, you are performing to attract people--you are dancing emotionally, on a platform created by [Meme:GangsOfAmerica a large corporation].+++ |
++People's feelings bounce back and forth, ignoring and denying [Media:Plastic_Fingers the system of power.]++ |
'''''It's like Stalin's [Wikipedia:Socialist_realism socialist realism].''''' |
Both Twitter and socialist realism are innocent expressions of the ideology of the time, which don't pull back and show the wider thing they are part of. |
We look back on socialist realism not as innocent but as a dramatic expression of power; it expresses the superiority of the state, which was the guiding belief at the time. |
I think sometime in the future people will look back at the millions and millions of descriptions of personal feelings on the internet and see them in similar ways. |
This is the driving belief of our time: that "me" and what I feel minute by minute is the natural centre of the world. |
'''Far from revealing that this is an ideology--and that there are other ways of looking at human society--what Twitter and Facebook do is reinforce the feeling that this is [Deoxy:bewilderness.htm the natural way to be.]''' |
]]] --Adam Curtis, ''[http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2011/may/06/adam-curtis-computers-documentary Have computers taken away our power?]'' ]]] |
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