Sunday, September 6, 2020

                  THE CHINESE FINGER TRAP OF THE MIND

THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF SOCIAL MEDIA
Much has been written about social media bubble culture--the semiotic self isolation of opposing
factions and cults that fall victim to a naive belief in their own jargon and memes.  Some prime examples include CO2 forcing pseudosceptics, and Extinction Rebellion in the Climate Wars.

Parallels are emerging in the Culture Wars, where in the Cancel Culture, Woke minds may display a level of semantic lockdown resembling a trance state.

When milennial militants steeped in critical theory display fugal behaviors like collective fist clenching, head nodding or chair throwing, liberating them from the consequences of their own semantic agression  may mean using the lingua franca of structuralism itself :