Status Updates From Wish I Were Here: Boredom a...

back to my regularly scheduled programming of reading books about technology 🤓

"This apparently innocuous news source and networking device is in reality one of the most pernicious features of a political structure that uses human boredom as a lever to maximize profit and undermine democracy"

(This = Facebook)

"Conviction becomes its own drug...the gateway drugs are interrupting, raising your voice over objections, and deliberately misunderstanding interlocutors... addicts move on to ranting at hidden forces, demonizing ethnic groups... if unchecked they ... fire up a tiki torch. The fact that a slogan like "Jews will not replace us" literally *makes no sense* is, at this point, not a defect but a mark in its favor."

"We must take seriously that there are no facts of the matter, that culture is not a shell game working to prop up articulable bourgeois interests, but instead a free play of empty signifiers and random spectacles that - yes - tend to reinforce current interests, but not by hiding a discoverable truth."