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They don't really own your face you know.

They don't really own your face you know.

October 19th, 2020.

Introduction

Our situation is as though someone who had more authority than was good for him

decided one day to see if he could get our entire population to begin acting as though they were autistic.

The trick would be to get them all to cover up their faces so that nobody could send or receive

the countless little social signals we all send every day,

with a result that we have now found ourselves inhabiting this gigantic 3D social media experiment,

trolls and all.

But this makes the whole thing seem deliberate and arbitrary, as though somebody just wanted to see what would happen.

Now I do think it was deliberate for a handful of people, those who wanted to sow some additional

chaos in advance of the presidential election.

But for most of the players it was simply a good old-fashioned moral panic, scaled up to fit our new

global communications technology, and then followed up by good old-fashioned conceit and pride, of the sort that wants to

postpone the admission of a catastrophic error as long as possible. That kind of climb down

is never any fun, right? And the fact that such a climb down is inevitable doesn't make it

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