“Humanity has been stripped from the virtual world: deliberately, maliciously. The goal is to make humans less human. Less imaginative and more callous; more desperate and less kind. Less demanding of authority, but ruthlessly demanding of ordinary people who hold neither leverage nor power. Memes and mantras replace contemplation and compassion, rendering humans indistinguishable from bots.”

– Sarah Kendzior

On the eve of the election, one of my sons noted “We’re either cooked today or cooked ...