A psychoanalytic reading of social media and the death drive
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#2I liked this :)
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#3With a name like Max Read there is only one calling!
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#4> "online celebrity is only ever 240 characters away from online infamy"
Horace, about 2'000 years ago, suggests a (long to modern eyes) embargo[1]:
> "You will have it in your power to blot out what you have not made public: a word once sent abroad can never return."
cautions against seeking internet points from astroturfers[2]:
> "As those who mourn at funerals for pay, do and say more than those that are afflicted from their hearts; so the sham admirer is more moved than he that praises with sincerity."
and even agrees with TFA's psychoanalytic reading[3]:
> "And whomsoever [a mad poet] seizes, he fastens on and assassinates with recitation: a leech that will not quit the skin, till satiated with blood."
[1] http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%...
[2] http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%...
[3] http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%... Amusingly, footnote 3 in the perseus text is a rosetta stone for the scholar's leisurely manner of saying "like and subscribe": "I must beg to recommend to the reader's notice my translation of Aristotle's Poetics, with a collection of notes, as the two treatises contribute to each other's illustration in the fullest extent."
Bonus tube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKftOH54iNU
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#5> "online celebrity is only ever 240 characters away from online infamy" Horace, about 2'000 years ago, suggests a (long to modern eyes) embargo[1]: > "You will have it in your power to blot out what you have not made public: a word once sent abroad can never return." cautions against seeking internet points from astroturfers[2]: > "As those who mourn at funerals for pay, do and say more than those that are afflicted…
From [3]
>I shall wonder if with his wealth he can distinguish a true friend from a false one
The state of social media?!
A thousand "followers" but none that can be called on in times of need.
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#6I was hoping, from the name, that Book Forum would have a web forum.
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#7"That we want to waste our time. That, however much we might complain, we find satisfaction in endless, circular argument."
"But political and economic and immunological crises pile on one another in succession, over the background roar of ecological collapse. Time is not infinite. None of us can afford to spend what is left of it dallying with the stupid and bland."
But in the past we had plenty of crises and yet we used to spend our downtime shooting the shit, going around in circles, with stupid and bland people just like ourselves (there's not many geniuses in any particular locality, and they usually aren't the ones shooting the shit, just as they don't now). At least it was face to face, I suppose. And at least you could go home and leave them behind to watch tv!
Edit: I will admit that there was more time to think and daydream (and be bored) then. Probably because you didn't have a tv in your pocket and, even if you did, there was often really nothing to watch.
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#8Psychoanalytic is as discredited as theory can get. It might as well as deriving particle theory from of Aristotle four base elements.
Plus the article is riddled with sentences like "telos of the clickbait economy is fascist kitsch."
It's just empty claptrap, that could have been written in half as many words, if the writer wasn't trying to be as pretentious.
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#9"That we want to waste our time. That, however much we might complain, we find satisfaction in endless, circular argument." "But political and economic and immunological crises pile on one another in succession, over the background roar of ecological collapse. Time is not infinite. None of us can afford to spend what is left of it dallying with the stupid and bland." But in the past we had plenty of crises and yet we…
>But in the past we had plenty of crises and yet we used to spend our downtime shooting the shit, going around in circles, with stupid and bland people just like ourselve
Past people were much more involved in societal change and day to day history than we are.
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#10"That we want to waste our time. That, however much we might complain, we find satisfaction in endless, circular argument." "But political and economic and immunological crises pile on one another in succession, over the background roar of ecological collapse. Time is not infinite. None of us can afford to spend what is left of it dallying with the stupid and bland." But in the past we had plenty of crises and yet we…
> But in the past we had plenty of crises and yet we used to spend our downtime shooting the shit, going around in circles, with stupid and bland people just like ourselve Past people were much more involved in societal change and day to day history than we are.
Kids these days!