Retribution for a world lost in screens

[Edward theurj Berge]

Is a title of a recent blog by Christopher Hedges. I must say I really like his rhetoric since he turned liberal. Here's an excerpt from that blog I especially like, since I too think Facebook is nothing but narcissistic waste:

"The electronic image leads us back to the worship of ourselves. It is idolatry. Reality is replaced with electronic mechanisms for preening self-presentation—the core of social networking sites such as Facebook—and the illusion of self-fulfillment and self-empowerment. And in a world unmoored from the real, from human limitations and human potential, we inevitably embrace superstition and magic. This is what the worship of images is about. We retreat into a dark and irrational fear born out of a cavernous ignorance of the real. We enter an age of technological barbarism."

[Edward theurj Berge]

Then I say too bad we don't have the likes of Sullivan representing the "conservative" view in Congress. Ah, but you see, he'd never get nominated into their Party given this heresy... All the more reason for breaking up the two-party system, but I won't live to see that one.