Friday, 21 February 2025
X etc. and ANOMIE
With amoral social media based plutocrats as U.S. leaders new technology has “trumped” law as the new centre of societal power. We are in a moment of global Anomie ["a lack of social or political standards in an individual or group"]. Millions more can be reached by social technology than by traditional communications and each page view generates more wealth for negligible expense. There are currently no conditions and wealth enables reach. The message of social media. as currently operated by footloose entrepreneurs like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, is ethical and political autonomy. Such techno-leaders openly scorn established powers for their weakness, only derivatively for their values. We are in an age of anomie in the centres of power. Resistance is necessary, the means are multiple and the time is now.
