John Young on Fri, 8 Jan 2021 22:56:26 +0100 (CET)


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Re: <nettime> made for TV, made for social media


Large scale protests like the Capitol assault are hardly US-centric any more than the Internet and social media are, or the spread of political ideologies and the commentariat as evidenced here for decades (thanks to the open-minded admins and some of the commenters).

Authorities are similarly less isolationist and simply nationalistic as dissidents, protesters, leaks, publishers, educators, corporations, investors, the poor, the immigrants, the genders, the hackers and malwarers.

It would be difficult to find many citizens or subjects of some hundreds of "nations" not to be extra-nationalistic, extra-ethnic, extra-religious, extra-ideological, extra-economical and -social and -lingual, due to the globalist media, entertainment, tourism, foreign-aidism of safety, health and welfare, treaties galore, bountiful alliances, elaborate criminal and quasi-criminal syndicates, drug distribution and money laundering cartels, military and intelligence sharing and cheating and selling and lying.

Lying, prevaricating, dissimulating, deceiving, lecturing, pontificating, theorizing, criticizing and ilk may be the top global political and economic and social produce, outdistancing climate change and other comparatively trivial initiatives, indeed, the trivial operations are totally dependent up the gargantuan purveyors of falsity, betrayal, malginancy, irresponsibility coutured and curated as beneficial.

Bribery is endemic, even pandemic, through subsidies, grants, gifts, tax forgiveness, off-shore and in-shore barely, if at all, legal arrangements to reward participants up and down the scale of income, education, reputation, credibility, eloquence, social categorization, networks of self-vaunting influencers, artists, intellectuals, too many to name so extensive is the willing takers of irresistable perquisites, if not individually, then for family, creed, bias, grievance, greedy infection.

What is surprising is that so little carnage has occurred, only small wars and terrorism, crazed shootings and bombing of dozens, kidnappings of hundreds, rape of thousands mostly by forced marriage (millions by tradition and custom and prejudice), tens of thousands imprisoned in jails and many millions in jobs and without them, while a few astoundingly rich get rapidly richer carefully rewarding the smart-asses facilitating and apologizing their unprecedented extortion which no royalty or Genghis or Aga Khan ever dreamed of amassing (to be sure the stupendous wealth is primarily data and belief in imaginary value).

The Capitol adventure does seem mostly ad hoc inflated like a doomed dirigible into imaginary value by "Made for TV, Made for Social Media." Fortuitously, coders might fancy, SM has become  more influential than TV, even here, an early SM adventure now cyber-long-toothed, not many have been on TV compared to the most who chirp up without paid subscription or publicity for new book. Is NetTime a socially-influenced mob regularly castigating the sacred halls of wisdom?

Most certainly. Your turn Ted. We love you.

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