Don’t Try This Stuff At Home – A Facebook Hometown Dive Might Just Kill You
(Caption: The Eagle, North Tarrytown NY, on the Hudson River)
So now I’m going back again
I got to get her somehow
All the people we used to know
They’re an illusion to me nowSome are mathematicians
Some are carpenter’s wives
Don’t know how it all got started
I don’t what they do with their livesBut me, I’m still on the road
Heading for another joint
We always did feel the same
We just saw it from a different point of view
Tangled up in blue. ~~~ Tangled Up In Blue (Bob Dylan)
READER WARNING:
Maybe one of the worst things you could possibly do is to Facebook search the “friends” you remember from high school and your old home town.
(Caption: the skoolie visits Music Hall, Main Street, Tarrytown NY)
If you do, you will be going down a dark rabbit hole that can only lead to disgust, depression, and even worse.
What the fuck became of all the young people you once knew who once seemed to have a spark of life?
My goodness, some are Jesus freaks, some are right wing assholes, and almost all are banal, careerist, empty, local, and conformists frauds.
As that notorious line went in A Clockwork Orange: Victims of the modern age!
Is it that Facebook itself is just an empty social media shell that incentivizes and encourages users to post hollow self aggrandizing bullshit?
Or do these people really believe in and have such empty consumerist, conformist, careerist, and material lives that serve absolutely no community purposes?
Just asking.
