It would be unsafe to mention where this came from, besides I don’t link to facebook. These are, after all, the days of big sister in Human Resources monotoring your social media: I note that in the latest Stross Laundry book the operatives of an intelligence agency have bots that run their social media profile so they remain under the radar of big data, which is now trying to develop data mining tools around mental health.

I was asked to define “ignorance” in a recent conversation (even though I was not the one throwing it around).
I won’t define it but I’ll give an example. Pretending that the communication crushing speech code known as “political correctness” which makes straight white Christian males quake in their boots for fear of offending pretty much everybody else doesn’t exist is ignorance.
It means you literally have no idea why such men speak in totally bland, euphemistic side-stepping language in the presence of women and minorities.
Or why they start every conversation where race is the issue with “I have a bunch of black friends.”
Or you approve of it and don’t care.
Macro truths matter. It’s where generalizations and stereotypes come from. And they aren’t all wrong

If social media are monitored, we will communicate. We will use blogs. If blogs are too monitored or taken down, we will use the chan or email. And if that is taken down, we will use USB sticks.

But the narrative of this time will fail. For it is too far from the truth for belief.