Brad Ictech

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What the social media gazer has gained from their unfortunate entanglement with power is a myopic vision of their life.

Human relationships are rich and they're messy and they're demanding. And we clean them up with technology. Texting, email, posting, all of these things let us present the self as we want to be. We get to edit, and that means we get to delete, and that means we get to retouch, the face, the voice, the flesh, the body -- not too little, not too much, just right.

Music is the least expensive form of art individuals consume, as it is commonly free for the consumer and proprietor, thus, the musical artist is the most cheated among artists.

As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance of the tranquility of the waters in which we see it.

The mere presence of a smartphone can tempt one’s social being to engage in the gratifying act of multiple conversations even though one might already be participating in an enjoyable social occasion with others.

The internet does not need a policing force for the process of face-work and a perceived  panopticon, real or not, already jail most individiuals into a state of normalcy.

Smart-technologies offer us an instant portal into the acted lives of others, temporarily gratifying our desires to connect and socialize, but if relied upon for interpersonal needs they always leave us wanting more. Although this gratification is not inherently bad in itself, it is unhealthy for the human condition to replace face-to-face interactions with interactions mediated by smart-technologies. In order for these two interactions to harmonize, they must supplement each other, with neither one overpowering the other nor fading into the background.

Approved attributes and their relation to face make every man his own jailer; this is a fundamental social constraint even though each man may like his cell.