I'm frustrated, overwhelmed, and might I even say a tad bit depressed. So let me just say we're all in the same boat. We all want to be rich, we all want a plethora of friends. But we realize what we've been sold is a bill of goods. Facebook didn't make us any happier, didn't make us feel we belonged, certainly not after a couple of years of posting. And Twitter gave us the illusion of being heard, but then we found out no one was listening. And musicians decrying the evisceration of their business model didn't realize the true problem was not monetization, but the inability to pierce the public consciousness, to break through all the marketing messages.
And I could tell you where it's going, but I'm not exactly sure, other than it's going to get worse, winners and losers in all walks of life. First it was the CEOs versus the workers. Then the bankers versus the workers. Then the techies versus the workers. One group got rich, and was venerated in the press, and the other group was pushed down and forgotten, given social media as a way to make them feel empowered when the truth was nothing of the sort.
And now I'm rambling.
But am I the only one confused?
The only one who believed in the possibility of the Internet but is now frustrated that I'm left even further behind, and that the winners are the usual suspects and the hucksters and a thin layer of innovators?
I'm stuck in the middle with you.
And we have power.
But mostly, I just want to communicate.
I love great art no matter the medium