The internet is already over

The most popular posts became the model for everything else…the result, of course, was that the entire thing became rote and lifeless and rapidly collapsed. Much of the media is currently going down the same path, refining itself out of existence.
Betteridge’s Law: Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.
Should I get upset about this? Should I be concerned? Why bother? It will not survive.
Recently, at a bar, I saw the room go bright as half the patrons suddenly started posing with their negronis. This is called “being real”.
Your frictionless digital future, your very important culture wars, your entire sense of self – it’s just a waste byproduct of the perfectly ordinary, centuries-old global circulation of fuel, capital, and Islam. It turns out that if these three elements are arranged in one particular way, people will start behaving strangely. They’ll pretend that by spending all day on the computer they’re actually fighting fascism, or standing up for women’s sex-based rights, as if the entire terrain of combat wasn’t provided by a nightmare head-chopping theocratic state.