“Technopoly is a state of culture. It is also a state of mind. It consists in the deification of technology, which means that the culture seeks its authorization in technology, finds its satisfactions in technology, and takes its orders from technology.” ― Neil Postman, Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology, 1992
“And though Russia does officially have a free market, with mega-corporations floating their record-breaking IPOs on the global stock exchanges, most of the owners are friends of the President. Or else they are oligarchs who officially pledge that everything that belongs to them is also the President’s when he needs it: “All that I have belongs to the state,” says Oleg Deripaska, one of the country’s richest men. This isn’t a country in transition but some sort of postmodern dictatorship that uses the language and institutions of democratic capitalism for authoritarian ends.” ― Peter Pomerantsev, Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia, year 2014
if social media users of Mastodon, Reddit, Bluesky could actually bother to read a book or even Wikipedia about the January 1944 "Second Bill of Rights" and make it front page of every social media site for day after day for 6 months, the problem would probably be progressed. This was 5 months before D-Day to liberate France from Nazi Germany, but all people do on their Apple iPhone / Apple iPad / Samsung Smartphone / Android devices is share kitten images and dumb as fuck memes in celebration of ignorance...