Mark Zuckerberg is esteemed, a tech-sage, an icon to be
emulated and listened to. Zuckerberg is the man who made social media part of
the warp and woof of daily life. Zuckerberg, the man who helped society
flourish through connectivity.
Zuckerberg is actually the most anti-social and subversive
person in our society. More than anyone else in our society (except maybe Steve
Jobs) Zuckerberg has facilitated the breakdown and disintegration of
communication. Zuckerberg has laboured to destroy sociability and some of its
core aspects, decorum and manners, words which are now all but meaningless in
the context of 21st century America.
Zuckerberg has no concept of what society is, how manners
were fundamental to respect, freedom, boundaries and incorporated a necessary
element of restraint. Manners are about putting the other person first,
thinking about how your actions are affecting others. These things were
essential for relationships to operate on both level of acquaintance and that
of intimate friend. Friend has become
a sad, hollow and all but meaningless term in the Zuckerberg world.
He is a child, and his adolescence has been allowed to
perpetuate due to his phenomenal wealth and celebrity. He has the impulses of a
spoiled youth who has more toys than he knows what to do with and has turned
into a sociopath, braggart, narcissist and exhibitionist and has helped to
create a generation of the same.
In Scripture it is viewed as a curse if society is handed
over to the rule of women and children. Zuckerberg is a 31 year old teenager
and his empowerment is judgment on Western society.
Once, and it seems like long ago, people had a concept of
private life. You shared information selectively. Relationships were built on
trust, not shallow adulation. You didn't share everything with everyone. You
didn't want everyone to read your diary and see your personal photos or be let
into your inner world. That's why it meant something when someone was your
friend and you let each other into your worlds. The intimacy of the relationship
meant something.
Today, everyone pastes their diary online for everyone to see
and 'like'.
The world's wisdom is backward, inverted and perverted. We're
living in an era of Orwellian insanity. War is peace, freedom is slavery.
Facebook is connectivity and friendship.
This notion is equally Orwellian and oxymoronic as we
consider the social effects and now even the political realities of these
behaviours.
Zuckerberg is an enemy to society, a destroyer of the very
term, 'friend'. It's an irony so great that all but a few have missed it.