Facebook Likes are a cancer on society. They glorify feels and enervate reason. They abet lies and exile truth. But they do perform a valuable service for the keen observer of civilizational decay. The FB Like, and what gets Liked most, are revealing glimpses into a nation’s character, and especially the character of its women, for whom Facebook Likes are happy drugs for their gluttonous egos. Remove the Like, and severe withdrawal symptoms manifest, similar to the effects one sees from the psychological damage that incurs after an extended stint in an isolation chamber.
A reader passes along two telling examples.
I found these two pictures today on my FB friend’s feed. (They aren’t my friends, fortunately, but they are friends of friends.) Both got lots of “likes” and supportive comments. I thought of you as soon as I saw them.
Since most of Facebook is a wasteland of middling…
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