Current “social interaction technology” (like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.) were designed around psychologically recognized principles of addiction according to some of the people involved.

These programs (and video games) are intentionally designed to provide consumers dopamine hits that keep the “users” coming back for more.

Anonymous–This will Change Everything You Know… (2018-2019)

“We live in a world now where it’s easy to confuse truth and popularity. And you can use money to amplify whatever you believe–and get people to believe that what is popular is now truthful, and what is not popular is not truthful.”

“I think that the tools that have been created today are starting to erode the social fabric…”

Chamath Palihapitiya, one of Facebook’s original executives

Insert fascis:  a fascis (image by Shawn Hamilton)

Fasces in the House of Representatives, US capitol (Hamilton)

German-American Bund Summer Camp, Long Island New York, 1938 (image by Holocaust History Museum)  (https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/media_ph.php?ModuleId=0&MediaId=2790)

German-American Bund parade; New York City; East 86th St.; Oct. 30, 1939 (image by Wikimedia) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_American_Bund#/media/File:German_American_Bund_NYWTS.jpg

Meeting in New Jersey of the German-American Bund ca. 1940. (Fair Use—Photograph by Otto Hagel from the Houston Museum of Fine Art’s 2013 exhibition, “War/Photography”. https://artblart.com/2013/01/18/exhibition-war-photography-images-of-armed-conflict-and-its-aftermath-at-the-museum-of-fine-arts-houston-3/

German Propaganda: Joseph Goebbels (image by Holocaust History Museum) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Goebbels#/media/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_102-17049,_Joseph_Goebbels_spricht.jpg

President John Kennedy and Allen Dulles ca. 1962 (image by Wikipedia) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Dulles#/media/File:Allen_Dulles_appointed_DCI,_26_February_1953.jpg

Richard Nixon and Prescott Bush: Lackey Nixon got himself a hat just like his boss! (Editorial Use)

Be this Guy! (image by Wikimedia)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fc/August-Landmesser-Almanya-1936.jpg