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Wednesday 30 March 2022

Porn, Sarcasm, and Accusations of Nazism

were predicted to become the staple fare
of the internet in 2010,
so how is each of them fairing 12 years on?

With porn, which is not just sexual images
but images of anything that can be rendered
into compulsive/obsessive viewing,
e.g. guns and food and video games,
much of it has now been regularised.

Copyright law has updated what internet providers
provide, so much of the secretive thrill
some obsessives used to get from their sources
being illicit is now gone, as they watch and read
material 
that it's producers now get paid properly for providing.

With sarcasm we should look at news and politics,
where observation gets fused with criticism
of this or point of view, and the media polarises
as built in bias divides how any people see each other.

With accusations of Nazism matter are even worse;
it used to be that most who were accused of Nazism
were right wing and anti-libertarian, but not Nazis.
They had no intention of becoming so.
But with the false ease of accusation
has come a kind of self-fulfilling prophesy;
the accusations has regularised opinion
to make being a Nazi seem relatively normal.

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