Tik Tok is appropriately named in this regard. Like the Tik Tok of a bomb about to detonate. Who needs nuclear weaponry when you have the bomb that is Tik Tok. Tik Tok incapacitates without all the nasty side effects of nuclear radiation.
Stupefaction by digital overload is a defining feature of governance across the West. It destabilises the population and is clearly being used as means of curating yet more dysfunction. The great weakness is that overseas players (like the Chinese) can contest the monopoly of abuse vested in our own masters. I expect that a split in the internet, with the digital world bifurcated into carefully policed divisions and a ban on apps and software from beyond, is already underway to correct this. Should the regulation of the digital economy split into rival zones, this bifurcation will be permanent.
Indeed. The spell of the spectacle. It's like Crack. No, check that, it's more like Fentanyl and just as deadly.
The Chinese figured that one out, which is why they invented Tik Tok as revenge for the O[pium Wars.
Tik Tok is appropriately named in this regard. Like the Tik Tok of a bomb about to detonate. Who needs nuclear weaponry when you have the bomb that is Tik Tok. Tik Tok incapacitates without all the nasty side effects of nuclear radiation.
Stupefaction by digital overload is a defining feature of governance across the West. It destabilises the population and is clearly being used as means of curating yet more dysfunction. The great weakness is that overseas players (like the Chinese) can contest the monopoly of abuse vested in our own masters. I expect that a split in the internet, with the digital world bifurcated into carefully policed divisions and a ban on apps and software from beyond, is already underway to correct this. Should the regulation of the digital economy split into rival zones, this bifurcation will be permanent.