4Chan / Twitter values “For the lulz” nation who thinks Fox News is hilarious, a 78 year old “edge lord” leading the nation as a shit-bird Tweet king on the toilet is funny. As long as everything keeps people entertained with technology.
“Technopoly is a state of culture. It is also a state of mind. It consists in the deification of technology, which means that the culture seeks its authorization in technology, finds its satisfactions in technology, and takes its orders from technology.” ― Neil Postman, Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology, 1992
“What I had not realized is that extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people.” ― Joseph Weizenbaum, MIT 1974
I been saying this shit since the 90s. Just cause it’s words on a screen doesn’t mean there wasn’t a person behind them. We created an unimaginable power then unleashed it on unprepared masses who simply can’t handle it.