Social media could take over the world
NOW we are all living the American corporate dream. That is what manipulation by social media is all about.
The difference between those who think they are invulnerable (most) and those who truly are is ‘wants’.
Not the needs of food, shelter and a paid occupation, but the bucket list of those who have reached a level of affluence that can indulge the corporate-induced dreams to fulfil contrived social and wealth aspirations with unneeded stuff. Wasn’t it ever thus?
The danger this time is that the selling of platform access to politically-motivated organisations is only one step away from developing their own political agenda.
Furthermore, social media is corralling all advertising to themselves to the extent that they could become ultimately the only source of information.
The reality of the American dream is that social-media corporations, on their present course, could take over the world – once they have successfully taken over our lives. Geoff Naylor Hampshire of the Southern Ireland referendum to remove the 8th Amendment which gave protection to the unborn child.
As did many good people who support respect for human life – the result being 33.6% who voted no, while 66.4% of the adult population voted to remove this protection, at the same time celebrating that the government will bring in a new law where women will be able to kill their unborn child up to 12 weeks for “any reason”.
This is a mark of shame for every Irish voter, who, with the knowledge of what has happened elsewhere, has chosen to dishonour new human life and the place of the child in his or her mother’s womb.
The obvious question that people should ask is, if we can celebrate the killing of the unborn child today, who will be next? Norman Plaisted Newport