Saturday, February 27, 2016
New flank?
Arstechnica, the home of COOL techbullies, is always a good place to get instant updates on the latest bullying. (In other words, the Github for tyranny.) On Apple vs FBI, of course Apple is right because Miss Timmah is SUPERCOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL. On an article about Facebook's tyrannical enforcement of racism, of course Facebook is right because Miss Mark is SUPERCOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL. It's all about knowing who is CORRECT and who is INCORRECT. All actions by top-caste are correct by tautological definition. All actions by Untouchables are incorrect by tautological definition. Woe betide the unfortunate Untouchable who DARES to speak in the presence of Superiors.
Even on a relatively non-tyrannical subject like Facebook's new emojis, the tyrants always swarm in to kill the uncool. The following subset of bullying strikes me as a new flank in the campaign; maybe I just hadn't noticed it before.
Untouchable commenters say things like:
No we're not. Some of us have never used it, because we saw it to be the vapid, negative, time-sink it was. Some of us just don't care about how many millions of others do a truly stupid thing.
Slashed by a volley of toxic arrows from The Exquisite Ones:
I really wish people like you would just shut up. The rest of the world simply doesn't care anymore. Get off your high horse, you're not special you're a pretentious ass.
In old dystopias the secret police forced you to keep your Telescreen turned on, and raided your Apartment Module if they determined you were covering the screen or muffling the microphone. Now the Armies Of The Precious take care of that chore, freeing the secret police for more serious work. You must have a cell phone, you must be constantly linked to iTunes and The Cloud, you must use Facebook.
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