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Episode 229: Scrolling Towards Bethlehem (trailer)

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4.53.3K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2022

⏱️ 5 minutes

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To hear the full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/TrueAnonPod --------- We are joined by Ben Tarnoff (twitter.com/bentarnoff), author of the forthcoming book Internet for the People (versobooks.com/books/3927-internet-for-the-people) to discuss the early wave of internet marketization, platform capitalism, and whether or not we should blow the whole thing up. Episode 18: DARPA Marx -- patreon.com/posts/episode-18-darpa-30769618

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0:00.0

Well, I have one last question and it's also about social media as well and really just kind of about the internet in general

0:08.0

But I think social media in particular is you know it occurred to me and this has actually occurred to me for quite a while

0:14.5

But it reoccurse to me every so often especially when I'm reading about this stuff and it re occurred to me when I was reading your book

0:22.0

No, does it ever really strike you sometimes? Do you ever wonder like what if

0:26.4

Like what if mankind was like not meant to communicate this way like what if this like barrage of like information

0:35.8

You know oftentimes

0:38.4

Contextless information at least information that's like totally shorn from any like from the real world

0:44.1

You know you're you're just getting it through like a screen or something or you know this like weird mediating interaction with others like

0:50.0

You know, I think I think a lot of the kind of ills of the internet or that have been born from the internet are often ascribed to this being sort of like growing pains

1:01.0

Or you know like something similar to like how things were with the printing press but

1:07.0

You know it strikes me as like what if the whole

1:10.4

What if the whole idea of us like communicating you know these these digital means

1:15.9

It's just like not something that the human human brain and the human soul really is meant to be doing

1:24.2

That's a fair question, braced

1:25.7

I don't mean to sound too optimistic about our ability to make a better internet

1:30.1

Maybe the internet shouldn't exist in the first place. I'm actually totally open to that possibility

1:36.3

I think what's hard is that you know as soon as the internet emerges

1:40.6

People start using it to communicate. It's actually not what it was created for but it's what people end up using it for

1:46.9

email becomes you know

1:49.2

wildly popular on the early internet because people love to communicate they love to socialize and

1:55.6

This I think does you know without sounding like one of those guys

1:58.7

I think that does speak to something in our human nature

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