Well, it appears that the young anarchists who want you to destroy your TV also want you to destroy your Facebook page. I find it interesting how these cultural rejectors are not only rebelling against corporate controlled media, but also corporate mediated social interactions.
Anarchists always get the underlying meaning of this society's media, that is control. Their fight is against the authentic's regulatation by a state apparatus. That today also means Facebook.
TV once was the dominant destroyer of the authentic, by representing a particular lifestyle through the one-two punch of dominant narrative and advertising's manufactured desire. Today it's Facebook and the like destroying the authentic relationship of people by creating a false representation of the self, one that is regulated by the framework of its profiles and interactions rather than experiences.
Most people, of course, are not aware how this is taking place. Or maybe if they are, they don't feel the issues of virtual social networks are weighty enough to merit the destruction (myself included). The values of these networks simply outweigh the issue. Still it's good to see someone is criticizing them in sloppy Dunkin Donuts graffiti. What could be more anti-Facebook than that.
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