The Double Slavery of the Internet… and Liberation

By |2022-08-11T19:40:19-05:00August 11th, 2022|Categories: David Deavel, Information Age, Senior Contributors, Social Media, Technology|

External shackles we will always have with us. Internal ones are the more worrisome, for they are the ones we forge ourselves. My all-too-modern soul requires a great deal of fasting from news, memes, and viral videos lest I develop eyes that do not see, ears that do not hear, and a mind that merely bobs [...]

Social Media *Is* Hate Speech: A Platonic Reflection on Contemporary Misology

By |2023-08-19T09:00:56-05:00July 21st, 2022|Categories: Civilization, Communio, Humanum, Plato, Social Media, Western Tradition|

The evident chaos of the contemporary “cancel culture”—which is coming to resemble something like a cyber version of The Terror in late 18th-century France during which the revolutionaries began cutting off even their own heads—is due to an abuse of language. There is a profound sort of cultural suicide occurring in this phenomenon. We are [...]

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