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The Echo Chamber
“Social media gives legions of idiots the right to speak when they once only spoke at a bar after a glass of wine, without harming the community. Then they were quickly silenced, but now they have the same right to speak as a Nobel Prize winner. It’s the invasion of the idiots.’ UMBERTO ECO”
You think that people like me, wealthy people, should behave like everyone else and be treated like everyone else. We don’t, we can’t, and we shouldn’t be.
‘Jesus wasn’t on social media,’ countered Elizabeth.‘Only because it wasn’t around then. But can you imagine if he’d tweeted from the cross?’… Or if he’d made a TikTok and posted it as he rose from the dead? What about an Instagram video of him turning water into wine? Content like that would have broken the Internet. Hashtag Messiah!’
‘I’ve lost interest,’ said Elizabeth. ‘I can’t even remember what breed I wanted.’
‘It was a guide dog,’ said Nelson. ‘Achilles offered to poke your eyes out, if it would help.’