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Flat White

Social media’s scorpion culture

12 February 2020

5:00 AM

12 February 2020

5:00 AM

The human experiment that has been hyper-connectivity facilitated by social media platforms tends to confirm Sartre’s statement that hell is other people — in the sense that he meant it; namely, it is seeing reflected back an image of oneself captured and defined by other people.  For those who enter the fray of the Twitterverse that reflection is usually distorted by the time it returns.

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