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

[John Young <jya@pipeline.com>]

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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