Facebook democracy and the zone of the indiscernible genre: A bas la république de la merde!
I have a mind to unfriend or block everyone who posts on Facebook a question that they ask others to answer, as if in an opinion poll, when these are usual simple questions the answer to which is either (a) interesting and thus not known, and thus a good research question, or (b) uninteresting because the answer will be obvious to everyone who has an opinion, and either (i) the person posing the question is a lazy student or scholar, or (ii) this is one of those ways people use FB to waste their time and try to engage in silly discussions.
I encourage others to follow me in this. We must combat the stupidity enforced by internet marketers who try to use 'capitalist democracy' to sell people aspects of their given identity, so that no one discusses anything truly interesting or important nor learns anything, and in the process we all become depoliticized non-citizens precisely by the falseness of the cooptation of the supposedly democratic idea of a public sphere where now, anything can be said, and by anyone and to anyone, and therefore the function is to produce the kind of discourse and knowledge that is, like most information searchable and retrieved on the internet, essentially, what is by definition of no interest and that people who are sensitive can detect by its foul smell:
The name for this being, of course, shit.
We have, thanks to capitalist surveillance in the interest of profit and policing, a democracy of shit.
If your shit job is not enough for you, maybe shit entertainment will be. To adapt the slogan used by the American military when it introduced the new draft registration (for an actual military draft that never came and was not then intended),
"It's quick, it's easy, and it's the law [of the 'free' and equal market]." Just like going to the toilet. So now, instead of toilets, what is available and equally in the same kind of place for both sexes (with the erotic zone that is indiscernibly singular nad neutral between the two sexes, the place of shit, where you belong if you are an:
Asshole.
See you later, A.
(And you thought that meant 'Anarchist').