Men of conscience are doomed to failure

Heads always roll

“The social media giants foster the grandiose illusion that your smartphone is a global megaphone, blasting out your furious convictions on the social, ethical and geopolitical dilemmas of the moment to a potential audience of millions (even if your actual followers number in the low hundreds).”

Josh Cohen: We’re living in the age of rage. I’m a psychoanalyst – here’s what we need to do to calm down, Observer newspaper, Sunday, 15 September 2024.

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Image: The execution of Louis XVI of France.

I don’t obviously know whether or not you’re reading this on a smartphone, whether you regard this blog as social media or whether, if you do, it’s fostering any grandiose illusions in you that it’s a global megaphone. If it is, or if you do, then I’m doing something wrong.

This blog is as insignificant as a blog can get. It’s even a member of the small blogs blog on Substack, if for no other reason than out of pure curiosity as to what constitutes a small blog, and what characterises it when it’s identified as one.