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John Scot's avatar

The problem stems from the artificial and problematic concept of the 'platform' itself. This is not at all natural to the internet - this was and is done to establish top-down control and strip any real power away from 'creators' and 'consumers.' "Platform" used to describe the combined hardware, software, and communications of a single computer system - computers used to be completely 'transparent' in their operation. There is only one reason things evolved as they did - control of the human operator. Allegedly.

ASH's avatar

allegedly was an egragore.

Allegedly.

Yes well said.

In the imperfection of man and its informing of self by uniformity has lead us to a spiritual pathos of persona. The reflection in the mirror of the LED screen narcissus has had this divine intervention between industrialisation and the modernisation away from the self.

And alas here we sit under a firmament of stars and technology.

Yet divinity of truth is only the Dionysian and not the saturnian learned truths.

Most will be subverted by the ..... Yeh i am full of shit...

whatever

John Scot's avatar

Haha!! That could not have been a more perfectly timed trip-up-the mountain-splash- in- the- face. Well, I guess the silver lining is, as an artist you can use the platform to curate and advertise, but it is a hard exercise for me to try to think of ‘ways out’ of here for human souls. It is really like trying to enact the Dionysian mysteries in Hades.

ASH's avatar

Herman Hesse explained it perfectly in the crossover of cultures

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIpbp9ENb7E&t=650s

Michaela McKuen's avatar

Well, Substack is owned by people who like Girard, the same person who mentored Peter Thiel. It doesn't surprise me it's turning the same as X.

ASH's avatar

Yup the TEAL effect. you can feel it on the platform like a harbinger or ghost in the machine.

I always knew social media was propoganda its just unfortunate that there is no decentralised publishing other than having a cellar webpage in ubuntustan. Its just weird to watch the X red washing and Sstack Blue washing and well Its google that selects the winners and losers and installs its dictator of the perception management team... So weird but hey..that is the hydra of communications in the kali yuga.

sumwoman's avatar

This reminds me. I forgot to create a LINKS section on my personnel website. You'll be on the list. I just found a streaming website. I will check it out. If it's a good thing, I will share their link.