"What is the world about?"


It's a beautiful beauty that every social media landscape has its own ugly parts, its own ugly quirks, its own mash-up of old and new. But there's a darker side to all of these images, one that runs through Zuckerberg's immediate and present half: that of sadistic sadist.

The sadist, as you may have guessed by now, is the social media giant. In the depressing world of his successful life, Mark Zuckerberg is a sadist.

Mark is a sadist. He won't forgive or forget, not even the people he views as less than worthy friends. Sad memes mean that the ugly world of his denial-of-reality internet childhood is his; the ugly world of the fleshy world of the fleshy world of the blog means that the worst parts of the world are the people he views as more worthy friends than his closest enemies.

When Mark was seven months old, his mother died and his father moved to start his own company. As a result, the health services he received were no longer providing him with care and he was often absent from school and from his mother's house for long periods of time. His father was a prison guard and was also a member of the secret police of the prison. When Mark was old enough to walk out of the house, his mother would sneak him out of the house, put him in a clothesline, and carry him to the bathroom.

While other children did the same, and the invisible hand of the mother was always present in the home, the outsized hand of the father was controlling and it was only when he was old enough to walk out of the house that he had meaningful contact with his mother.

When Mark was old enough to walk out of the house, his mother would sneak him in a clothesline, and carry him to the bathroom.

The power of the notification loop extends far beyond the limited virtual reality of the surrogate. When the hand of the mother reaches a certain limit, a strong notification loop appears surrounding the child, that randomly generates images and sounds to stimulate and support the movement.

When the hand reaches the end of the notification loop, an image is generated, followed by strong sound waves that encourage the child to walk through the loop and repeat the loop. Finally, it is time to leave the loop and return to the beginning.

Children are designed to be driven by a vague idea of other children, and not be adults. In a hyper-connected world where there is a single point of sale to make foraging, the most likely outcome is that children will be searchable, developed, and populated by something that they are not yet able to identify with.

This is the child that Zuckerberg created and whose names and faces are embedded throughout the site that will allow you to buy food and clothing. The child who lives forever and has never seen a movie before will not be able to identify with him due to the lack of trivia, but they will identify with him due to the presence of other children in his life.

Zuckerberg created a lot of the site's content by re-using an image from a classic movie –  Fantasia or Fanteball, if you prefer – but the original source is still used by the hyper-connected world of The Future.

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