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Education systems, newspapers and television stations still defer to the national state. But when sociologists describe the proliferation of ‘lifeworlds’ online, it goes without saying that their porous outlines have little to do with national boundaries.
users end up constantly distracted, unproductive, anxious, needy and depressed – yet also curiously susceptible to advertising.
Scapegoating the social industry evades the question of why people are drawn to it in their billions. What problems does it appear to solve?
We should begin to take seriously the possibility that something about the social industry is either incipiently fascistic, or particularly conducive to incipient fascism.
A tour of a brewery won’t explain why somebody became an alcoholic.’
utopias at their best are not prescriptions but imaginative placeholders for human desires.
