Mar 07, 2009 23:07
Twitter represents the latest, and also one of the steepest, elements in the decline of western culture into a sort of Huxleyan-Matrixy-Neil Postmanite dystopia of passive distraction - a shallow, narcissistic existence centered on egoism, perpetuated by ever-developing outlets for uncritical consumption both enabled by and in direct support of the growing reach of and dependence on technology.