Etiquette and paste

New to steemit, not sure of the etiquette but this little gem of a paragraph leapt off the page in a review of Adam Curtis' Hypernormalization. Sums up the internet's dive from psychedelic manifestorium for the collective consciousness to crass commodification engine pressing us into moulds carved out for turn key tyranny.

"Early-eighties tech utopians thought that the Internet would provide radical freedom from the corruption of the state. Manifestos were written and the general tenor of the Northern California dream was built upon the sense that technology could open the doors of perception, allowing us to see parallel versions of our reality, not unlike what those who had experimented with L.S.D. in the nineteen-sixties and seventies came to believe. Over time, however, this vision was, in Curtis’s telling, perverted by the encroachment of corporate and state control. The Internet now resembles the dystopian “cyberspace” of William Gibson novels, one in which a small handful of entities use our networks as a means to spy on everyone and also control the ideological limits of popular discourse by selling ourselves back to us, reinforcing our own preëxisting ideas by making sure we don’t encounter anything in social media or in e-commerce that pierces our algorithmically curated world view."

Read the whole thing here: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/adam-curtiss-essential-counterhistories