In the heart of the empire, same as it ever was. I mbin “boosted” your comment, because it’s the same old pipe dream they’ve always sold us that we keep buying, with just enough “good” hits to keep us coming back, as I elsewhere.
What? Are you seriously gonna say that television and Internet weren’t a massive boon for society regarding education/knowledge sharing and social exchange? You’ve such a negative outlook on life if you honestly believe that.
I remember when people would tell you things and you just had to say OK cause your only refute was to hop on over to the library and find a book as a source.
And pre-Internet, when would you ever communicate with someone outside of your little town? Sure sign up for a penpal or some shit like that, but the ability for me where I am on the shitter to write this comment to you is INSANE in the broad spectrum of the human race.
Yes, I’m going to say that television and the Internet weren’t a massive boon for society.
Television (and streaming video later on) when it started off perhaps had potential to change things for the better. Now look at it. “Reality” shows, politically divisive opinion pieces masquerading as news, and in general just a pile of crud until you get into the individual paid channels … which benefit only those who can afford the increasingly expensive fees.
Benefitting the rich? Yeah, that’s new and unexplored territory for sure!
As for the Internet, again, when it was first unleashed on the public it was a GREAT place. Now it’s one walled garden after another with the only real concern the delivery of ads as often and as plentiful as possible. Its potential has been wasted. But hey, at least the warp speed spread of disinformation that it enables with such panache didn’t result in the ever-accelerating failure of democracies around the world!
It’s the old tech shill’s shell game.
“This is what we could have!” (Note: could have. Not what they’re working toward.)
Television was once hailed as a boon for education. How long did that last?
The Internet was once hailed as a means of learning about each other. Now it’s a source of ever-increasing vociferous division.
All of this is purest fantasy because the people pitching it are shit humans who don’t want the future they sell to us.
In the heart of the empire, same as it ever was. I mbin “boosted” your comment, because it’s the same old pipe dream they’ve always sold us that we keep buying, with just enough “good” hits to keep us coming back, as I elsewhere.
What? Are you seriously gonna say that television and Internet weren’t a massive boon for society regarding education/knowledge sharing and social exchange? You’ve such a negative outlook on life if you honestly believe that.
I remember when people would tell you things and you just had to say OK cause your only refute was to hop on over to the library and find a book as a source.
And pre-Internet, when would you ever communicate with someone outside of your little town? Sure sign up for a penpal or some shit like that, but the ability for me where I am on the shitter to write this comment to you is INSANE in the broad spectrum of the human race.
Stop being such a doomer
Yes, I’m going to say that television and the Internet weren’t a massive boon for society.
Television (and streaming video later on) when it started off perhaps had potential to change things for the better. Now look at it. “Reality” shows, politically divisive opinion pieces masquerading as news, and in general just a pile of crud until you get into the individual paid channels … which benefit only those who can afford the increasingly expensive fees.
Benefitting the rich? Yeah, that’s new and unexplored territory for sure!
As for the Internet, again, when it was first unleashed on the public it was a GREAT place. Now it’s one walled garden after another with the only real concern the delivery of ads as often and as plentiful as possible. Its potential has been wasted. But hey, at least the warp speed spread of disinformation that it enables with such panache didn’t result in the ever-accelerating failure of democracies around the world!