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IS THERE LIFE AFTER FACEBOOK? – ADDENDUM THE CYBER GULAG REVISITED and DEBATE RELOADED • ON THE ARAB “SPRING,” LONDON “SUMMER” AND WALL STREET “AUT ...

IS THERE LIFE AFTER FACEBOOK? – ADDENDUM THE CYBER GULAG REVISITED and DEBATE RELOADED • ON THE... Misled by a quick triumphalism of the social-media, the international news agencies have confused the two: revolt and revolution. The past unrests started as a social, not political public revolt. Through the pain of sobriety, the protesters are learning that neither globalization nor the McFB way of life is a shortcut to development; that free trade is not a virtue, but an instrument; that liberalism is not a state of mind but a well-doctrinated ideology, and finally that the social media networks are only a communication tool, not a replacement for independent critical thinking or for the collapsed cross-generational contract. Londoners, Greeks and New Yorkers are experiencing about the same. How does the Arab “Spring” correlate with the European Euro-frost, and American OWS unrest? For almost ten years now, the youth in Europe is repeatedly sending us a powerful message on the perceived collapse of the social contract. The cross-generational contract should be neither neglected, nor built on the over-consumerist, disheartened and egotistic McFB way of life. Equally alienating and dangerously inflammatory is the collision of the entering youth generation (if/when deprived of the opportunity and handed over to a lame hope) – through a religious or political radicalization. In this word spanned between the Kantian hopes and Hobbesian fears, thus the final question: Is there life after FB? If so, how can we register our future claims? Keywords: Middle East/MENA, social media networks, integrity and monetization, popular movies, Dostoyevsky, Heidegger, Nietzsche, Plato, Dante, Goethe, Fromm, Huxley, Tesla, Sagan, cross-generational contract, London riots, anti-politics, Europe, Radicals and Islamists, Right-wing populist parties, austerity, Occupy Wall Street, Euro-Med, Southeast Asia, prosperity, solidarity, security, Hegel and freedom, meaning, common cause http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Review of Contemporary Philosophy Addleton Academic Publishers

IS THERE LIFE AFTER FACEBOOK? – ADDENDUM THE CYBER GULAG REVISITED and DEBATE RELOADED • ON THE ARAB “SPRING,” LONDON “SUMMER” AND WALL STREET “AUT ...

ANIS H. BAJREKTAREVIC
Review of Contemporary Philosophy , Volume 11 (1): 15 – Jan 1, 2012
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Misled by a quick triumphalism of the social-media, the international news agencies have confused the two: revolt and revolution. The past unrests started as a social, not political public revolt. Through the pain of sobriety, the protesters are learning that neither globalization nor the McFB way of life is a shortcut to development; that free trade is not a virtue, but an instrument; that liberalism is not a state of mind but a well-doctrinated ideology, and finally that the social media networks are only a communication tool, not a replacement for independent critical thinking or for the collapsed cross-generational contract. Londoners, Greeks and New Yorkers are experiencing about the same. How does the Arab “Spring” correlate with the European Euro-frost, and American OWS unrest? For almost ten years now, the youth in Europe is repeatedly sending us a powerful message on the perceived collapse of the social contract. The cross-generational contract should be neither neglected, nor built on the over-consumerist, disheartened and egotistic McFB way of life. Equally alienating and dangerously inflammatory is the collision of the entering youth generation (if/when deprived of the opportunity and handed over to a lame hope) – through a religious or political radicalization. In this word spanned between the Kantian hopes and Hobbesian fears, thus the final question: Is there life after FB? If so, how can we register our future claims? Keywords: Middle East/MENA, social media networks, integrity and monetization, popular movies, Dostoyevsky, Heidegger, Nietzsche, Plato, Dante, Goethe, Fromm, Huxley, Tesla, Sagan, cross-generational contract, London riots, anti-politics, Europe, Radicals and Islamists, Right-wing populist parties, austerity, Occupy Wall Street, Euro-Med, Southeast Asia, prosperity, solidarity, security, Hegel and freedom, meaning, common cause

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Review of Contemporary Philosophy – Addleton Academic Publishers

Published: Jan 1, 2012

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