Welcome to the age of openness
Where your worth is tied to your willingness to share
Where your experiences do not exist if they are not documented
and posted for like share subscribe
Where every thought must be broadcast, every idea shared
Everything everything everything is content
And we are all just content creators and content consumers
And it used to be "it's not what you know, it's who you know,"
But now it's "how's the content, how many followers, how many subscribers,
and what percentage of them are bots?
And people cry defund the police and oh no, what would we do,
how would we catch the bad people,
and we realize that cops don't catch the bad people anymore,
people with cell phone catch the bad people by posting the videos,
including videos of the cops.
The cops of the future will just be really, really online kids,
and the choice will be cancel or convict.
Welcome to the era of openness,
Where the current president got nominated off the strength of his Twitter game,
Where simply documenting your existence is a viable career \,
Where you can be a youtuber, an influencer, a cosplayer, a gamer,
and a new defining aspect of being a have or have-not
relates to the speed of your internet connection.
Welcome to the era of openness,
Where maybe you don't have health insurance
but if you can share well enough
make yourself sympathetic enough
maybe you can crowdsource enough money
to see a doctor after a cop breaks your face
for protesting against violence cops.
At least you got the whole incident on video .
That's great content.
Welcome to the era of openness,
Where the unwired are the ignored,
Where the private are the forgotten,
Where life is but an attention-desperate consumer
that struts and frets through meme-cycles online
and then is shared no more,
Where we are the idiots full of sound and fury,
endlessly repeating nothing,
Where or social media profiles live on after we die.
Welcome to the new immortality.
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