Mass media reaches its natural end-state when we broadcast our lives rather than live them.
True?
Nicholas Carr writes about the philosopher Jean Baudrillard who gave a series of lectures in California back in 1999 well before the advent of the social networking phenonoma.
Ecstasy of the social: the masses. More social than the social.
Ecstasy of information: simulation. Truer than true.
Ecstasy of time: real time, instantaneity. More present than the present.
Ecstasy of the real: the hyperreal. More real than the real.
Ecstasy of sex: porn. More sexual than sex …
Thus, freedom has been obliterated, liquidated by liberation; truth has been supplanted by verification; the community has been liquidated and absorbed by communication … Everywhere we see a paradoxical logic: the idea is destroyed by its own realization, by its own excess. And in this way history itself comes to an end, finds itself obliterated by the instantaneity and omnipresence of the event.
Ht Andrew Sullivan
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