All human efforts Are but Towers of Babel Growing to collapse
Maybe true over aeons but blatantly untrue in the shorter term which is what inevitably matters to us now while we're alive making that effort.
The internet is already over
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#22The author makes a lot of witty, erudite References – a method that has annoyingly become popular and is often mistaken as "good writing" – but I think he has missed a simple and obvious truth: culture is determined by fashion. Not fashion as in clothing, but fashion as in ideas and things that are trendy for a time then fade away, replaced by the next thing. The next thing is often an indirect reaction to the previo…
It is true, trends are immense social forces but also very much absurd and chaotic. It works until it doesn't and there's another wave.
Punk is not dead !
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#23This article is akin to dot-com bubble mentality: "Internet sucks", "Internet is dead, move on" etc. but then Amazon, Google and Facebook rose, proved critics wrong and got mad rich doing it.
If engagement and revenue is in decline for internet businesses that means nothing. There are always business cycles of expansion and retraction.
The only thing that can kill internet is something better than the internet.
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#24Only a slave mentality of a Christian in a fantasy world of believe or burn could turn a fundamental law of the universe into a depressing and horror of negative.
All things arise and pass away. This is truth.
If you believe it to be terrible then you are blind to half your life.
Once a man, twice a child. This is not sad, it is nature. The end gives VALUE to what existed.
The author criticizes the downfall of the techno-optimist, pretending to be one amidst his sad broken romance of limited perception and judgement of the state of world.
The internet is a tool that humans created. It’s going to stick around just like fire did for us, which is now a convenient plastic container in your pocket btw. Because it isn’t bad or good (believe or burn - goodness, learn to think and stop feeling), it just is.
There is nothing wrong with the world. It is as it always has been and it always will be., arising and passing away. The only problem is that your eyes are closed.
Rather than contemplate the horror of the internet, why not contemplate what it could become next? How do we turn the camp fire into a lighter? Wouldn’t that be interesting?
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is true, trends are immense social forces but also very much absurd and chaotic. It works until it doesn't and there's another wave.
Punk is not dead !
unfortunately the antibodies of capitalism are increasingly effective in eliminating punk anywhere it attempts to take root
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#26Reading the article with the understanding that it was written by a bot, complete with Denigration of Daily Mail subroutine, helps prove its point.
Re: The internet is already over
#27The author makes a lot of witty, erudite References – a method that has annoyingly become popular and is often mistaken as "good writing" – but I think he has missed a simple and obvious truth: culture is determined by fashion. Not fashion as in clothing, but fashion as in ideas and things that are trendy for a time then fade away, replaced by the next thing. The next thing is often an indirect reaction to the previo…
Your initial comment about his bad writing is subjective but you don't state that
Re: The internet is already over
#28The author makes a lot of witty, erudite References – a method that has annoyingly become popular and is often mistaken as "good writing" – but I think he has missed a simple and obvious truth: culture is determined by fashion. Not fashion as in clothing, but fashion as in ideas and things that are trendy for a time then fade away, replaced by the next thing. The next thing is often an indirect reaction to the previo…
Doesn't he talk about precisely this in the first section?
Re: The internet is already over
#29The author makes a lot of witty, erudite References – a method that has annoyingly become popular and is often mistaken as "good writing" – but I think he has missed a simple and obvious truth: culture is determined by fashion. Not fashion as in clothing, but fashion as in ideas and things that are trendy for a time then fade away, replaced by the next thing. The next thing is often an indirect reaction to the previo…
Didn’t read the article. But this comment …
Careful, you have gotten so postmodern you have lost your way.
Touch for example isn’t just an idea, no matter what a half dozen philosophers and academics say.
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#30The author makes a lot of witty, erudite References – a method that has annoyingly become popular and is often mistaken as "good writing" – but I think he has missed a simple and obvious truth: culture is determined by fashion. Not fashion as in clothing, but fashion as in ideas and things that are trendy for a time then fade away, replaced by the next thing. The next thing is often an indirect reaction to the previo…
The vast majority of this article might as well be GPT-3 puke. Some interesting bits can be found at "When I say the internet is running dry,", afterwards it's right back to GPT-3 level drivel and I stopped reading.
Was this really written by a human?