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The current state of the wmm is the result of a nearly 30 year, multi-billion dollar campaign by capitalists to turn it into the largest market apparatus in human history. once a tool of utility and communitarian "conviviality", to use the Illichian term, it has slowly morphed into an institution fine-tuned for the production/consumption cycle of modern markets
where it once encouraged expression and sponteneity, it now demands "content", spaces that once had the feel of a global town square have become vectors of parasitism, turning the natural human inclinatian towards community and social connection into a source of near-infinite revenue.
The intsittions that once served as librarians to all of human knowledge have been twisted and contorted into tacky used car salesmen.
instead of being useful, the www has been made to direct us towards ever-increasing opportunities for consumption. A blog post about how t maintain you kitchen knives is littered with links to places to buy new cuttlery. the very language of the writing itelf have been crafted to manipulate search cawlers to direct users to it's content. What starts as a search for self-sufficiency is coopted into a carjacking and kidnapping. You are dragged to the storefront, and psychically attacked and manipulated, conditioned like a dog hearing his dinner bell. Everything made just-so to induce the consumer response that has been programmed deep in the folds of your subconscious, a kind of learned helplessness that you have been subjected to from a lifetime of advertizing and marketing.