We Can’t Handle What the Internet Has Done to Us
Jules Evans,
OneZero,
Dec 24, 2019
The funny thing, for me, is that I'm actually comfortable with all this chaos. The whole internet thing doesn't bother me. Why not? Here's how Jules Evans characterizes the problem: "Social media has also totally transformed our politics, in a decade. It's ripped apart our sense of trust in media and politicians.... The trick mirror turns everything into a performance, so political debate becomes wrestling.... We have reached a stage of collective consciousness, through globalization and the internet, and we can't quite handle it."
So why am I OK with all this? Maybe it's because I grew up in a small town, maybe it's because I was writing from an early age, maybe it's because I never trusted media and politicians, having seen from the inside how they fabricate reality, maybe it's because I read a lot of science fiction and to me all this is normal. But my advice is: don't lose your head over all this, it's not nearly as bad as you are being led to believe, and it serves only to obscure the real problems - the abuse of power, authority and wealth - that we have always had.
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