Glen -
I saw a good little joke this morning, which echoes SteveS' nihilistic
argument from convenience:
https://mastodon.social/web/@AgreeableLandscape/109074621789771764
"Why do you have a job at a private company, buy food from a chain
grocery store, and have a smartphone from a monopolistic tech company
if you hate #capitalism so much?"
"Excuse me Mr. Cow, why are you at a factory farm if you don't want to
get eaten?"
(Obviously, it's not "Mr. Cow", but whatever.) Are we cows? Really? Or
are we more plastic creatures who *can* undermine and retool the
reigning forcing structures like Amazon (or "the government")?
Particularly apt given my last rant (being composed as you composed this
one?). FWIW I don't mean it to be nihilistic but (mildly) shaming
enough that maybe more of us *will* consider that we might want to look
for alternatives to the "forcing structures" you reference... but
smart-bois like us seem to be struggling mightily with the topic, how
would we expect Mr. Cow (or Ms. Sheeple) to get traction? Mr.
Libertarian (or Q or Rogan or???) will surely hijack any attempts to do
so by the plebian hordes? Now I *am* being nihilistic/dystopian...
consider it a challenge, not a conversation stopper?
The Epic 2014 "Googlezon"
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUHBPuHS-7s>short video still plays
well in spite of being composed (prophetically) in 2004. It is more
responsive maybe to EricS's point about the failed News business
(Mediascape).
- Steve
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