Not two years ago I was having a conversation with an old friend that went approximately:
"Facebook, this whole internet thing, hasn't really..."
"...worked out"
"Yeah, this isn't what we thought it was gonna be. Let's just... "
"...turn it off"
There was a belief implicit in the idea of every human on Earth being connected. Many of the phenomenon that came about have made that belief look vulnerable to a certain cynicism, a cynicism about humanity, that we fear in each other, that we hold towards ourselves. A currency that bound us together face to face became fiat and then failed at scale. It is within the vacuum painted by this fear that the organizing effects of the old-world economy have been fallen back on, but I do not presently fear this cynicism, and I save my currency wherever I can earn it.
"Facebook, this whole internet thing, hasn't really..."
"...worked out"
"Yeah, this isn't what we thought it was gonna be. Let's just... "
"...turn it off"
There was a belief implicit in the idea of every human on Earth being connected. Many of the phenomenon that came about have made that belief look vulnerable to a certain cynicism, a cynicism about humanity, that we fear in each other, that we hold towards ourselves. A currency that bound us together face to face became fiat and then failed at scale. It is within the vacuum painted by this fear that the organizing effects of the old-world economy have been fallen back on, but I do not presently fear this cynicism, and I save my currency wherever I can earn it.