Social Media
Channel: ECLECTICIST Podcast
Date: 11/01/2017

“Please, for the love of all that’s glorious in the world, look at these cat pictures.” So says the global conversation according to that mass interactive communication platform: Social Media. One can scarcely bear to imagine what life might have been like before the brow dampening joy of tweeting one’s whereabouts to the indelible archive that is the Internet. “Validate me now, you sods.” So says the unflinchingly self aggrandizing mode of standing before the precipice of the infinite echo chamber. Possibly the perfect manifestation of Aestheticism, we are as Dorian Gray—made monstrous bipolar narcissists forever shoveling coal into the furnace of negative feedback, built from an advertisers wildest fantasy. “You blocked me on Facebook, and now you're going to die.” Eclecticist.co.uk