cyberspace

Tis the times’ plague, when madmen lead the blind.
— Shakespeare, King Lear

We live in a fabricated reality where the visible world became nearly meaningless once the screen world became people’s “window on the world.”  An electronic nothingness replaced reality as people gleefully embraced digital wraparound apparitions.  These days people still move about in the physical world but live in the electronic one.  The result is mass hallucination.

Edward Curtin writes about the fabricated world of engineered emergencies and digital alerts. By Edward Curtin Edwardcurtin.com  “The internet was hardwired to be a surveillance tool from the start.  No matter what we use the network for today – dating, directions,…Read more →