The Echo Chamber

by John Boyne

‘Social media gives legions of idiots the right to speak when they once only spoke at a bar after a glass of wine, without harming the community. Then they were quickly silenced, but now they have the same right to speak as a Nobel Prize winner. It’s the invasion of the idiots.’ UMBERTO ECO

OMG so bloody true!!!!

‘I understand that some people prefer the third person plural for a pronoun,’ he replied, having recently interviewed a pop singer on his show who’d insisted upon this, leading one of the cameramen to be fired for calling them Sibyl, after the Sally Field movie about the woman with multiple personalities.

‘I’m educating strangers on how they can live better lives. And making sure that those with the wrong opinions are held to account.’

Have to remember this is fiction, dont get so annoyed!

‘But this is how you influence people. By gaining as many followers as possible and making them believe in you, even if you have no knowledge or training in your particular subject. That’s

how Jesus did it, after all. And look at Christianity. It’s huge.’ ‘Jesus wasn’t on social media,’ countered Elizabeth.

‘People that are, you know, constantly alert to every injustice in society, every perceived slight, and who are just desperate to let you know when they’ve found one. They seek them out with all the urgency of truffling pigs.’

the wokesters

‘The powers that be, the Great Unelected Consciences of the World, didn’t approve of what she said and that was the end of her.