Kweku Ananse Haki

Kweku Ananse HakiWow didn’t expect that Ayn Rand was one of the catalysts for why we’re living in this modern day data collecting digital dystopia. Hippie Libertarian Idealists around the early computer boom thought that networks would give us personal liberty we’re we essentially become gods of our own world…little did they know it was the other way around.

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Kweku Ananse HakiThe advertisement that dreamed of a life of advertising got tired of it so he just left. 👍🏿

Kweku Ananse HakiWas funny when it focused on the shitposters and memesters on Reddit, the moment it started to equate Wall Street Bets to the January 6th Trump Kerfuffle it started to lose me. There’s overlap in those communities no doubt but then there are a bunch of other places and groups on the internet that the director could have included and the question would be when does it end? At the end of the day the movie was really taking about the madness of crowds and how technology exacerbates that madness but I feel like we’ve gotten that lesson a bunch of times already…

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Kweku Ananse HakiThree things I’ve intuited from actual experience. - While the libertarian ideal of personal liberty was one of the ideals of the internet it ultimately ended up as data collection device. - The internet is inherently voyeuristic and exhibitionist not just in a sexual way. - The internet was warped our conception of privacy not destroyed but warped it into something that I can’t completely describe or comprehend. I think this documentary does a great job displaying these truths of the internet before it even the internet fully formed into what it is today. Did enjoy would watch again and recommend.

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