I think it's hard, at this point, to say something new about social media and the effect it's having on us, socially, psychologically and spiritually. But I tried!
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A few points:
1) The biggest change that comes from our current internet isn't who can speak but what we can hear.
2) That is, we have given just about everyone enormous powers of surveilance.
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1) The biggest change that comes from our current internet isn't who can speak but what we can hear.
2) That is, we have given just about everyone enormous powers of surveilance.
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3) The experience of being on the other end of that surveillance, even though we bring it on ourselves, is a profoundly alienating one.
4) The reason it is so alienating is that it tickles but doesn't satisfy out most fundamental human desire, the desire to be recognized.
4) The reason it is so alienating is that it tickles but doesn't satisfy out most fundamental human desire, the desire to be recognized.
5) For most of human history we had mutual relationships - people who we knew, who knew us. *Or*, idols, people *we* felt we knew who were strangers. Now almost everyone can have a third experience, which is *to be known by strangers.*
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