How do you stroke a Narcissist? By American Proxy. (Gangsters & Traders and Thugs, Oh my!) "Shock values are not just for differential equations anymore." Anyone may want to believe, we're supposed belong to very exclusive "IN" groups. But exclusivity itself is almost always defined by a pretense. Even well meaning people can often only respond to that which seems wrong in the moment, prompting hostile reaction. I myself, really do hate having to use so much pretentiously gimmicky loaded language. But unless I'm willing to stroke that bad monkey, "You may never get to read this." Pretenses are in essence nothing more than group biased misrepresentations, vying for your preferentially biased attention.
And as a result of our need to keep the "Twin Promises of the Arts & a Free Press alive, we must now become much more provocatively creative. Otherwise no one will ever even hear from us. The humorless approach to media dissemination may help us stay online with our own mutually defined sub cultures. But in our new mutually all inclusive Super Culture, we're here for everyones edification. Yes, I do know we might soon need to turn our backs on those groups of partisans, who choose to violently oppose us. But for now, that wouldn't be good Xenophilia. Being kind isn't the same as being antagonistic.
Humans are often very susceptible to idealizing the corrupt leaders, who share our biases. And Xenophobia is now going Global. But for the time being, much of the online media is simply appalling, false and base. As an example, some of the only comments I've ever gotten on my blog were in response to someone (Or something) redistributing my more controversial posts without my permission. Especially, my "Twin Promises of the Arts and the Free Press" which features a picture of the nude statue of Michelangelo's "David." Most, if not all of the comments, were about the unwanted distribution of unsolicited online pornography. I was warned that I would be reported for sending offensive pornographic materials. Until this had happened against my will, no one ever had said much of anything about any my blogs.
Documentary essays are in general, completely hidden from Search Engines, unless of course you "tag" your works with Market Index labels. Add that from within todays popular cultures of informational undertow, all literary submissions are subject to the online half life of an ever accelerating expiration date. Even good journalism is now getting lost in a constant stream of ubiquitous waste data, seeking immediate online engagement. So for now, we are back to trying to redefine how we want to play the game of online media engagement, "Shock values aren't just for differential equations anymore." I'm not suggesting that we indulge in aggressive "proxy wars" with the fake news industries, but we do need to be getting much more proactively creative.
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