GET OFF MY INTERNET

Date: February 1, 2025

You’re a poseur pretending to be a friendless social reject. You are not a real loser like I am.

Some People Aren’t Meant for the Internet, and You’re Probably One of Them.

Nazi salute aside, it’s been an eventful month or so for the social web-propaganda device. Downgrading to dumbphones is becoming a luxury, elitist status symbol. Trump’s agreement with the CCP to temporarily shut down TikTok was probably deployed as a psyop to create the Trump Youth. Another mass exodus from Twitter, Tiktok, Facebook/Instagram is currently underway. It seems we’re finally becoming terminally ill with the invasive alien technology that a computer, and especially, a smartphone, fundamentally is.

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People are waking up to the reality that being terminally online is the ritualized sacrifice of their embodied, offline life. We are made to pour our vital energy into the digital; to turn our psychic machinations into coded-libations — spilling the contents of our interiors into the restricted access, privatized external container of the corporate data facility.

As popular backlash grows, and calls to “return to real world” proliferate, a subtle confession seems to go unnoticed: to reject the digital world is to humblebraggingly admit that one had the option to live in the embodied world to begin with. They have a world to return to, and they chose, or “were coerced,” as many of them argue, into surrendering their lives to the internet. They have, what Marc Andreessen accurately calls “reality privilege.”

“A small percent of people live in a real-world environment that is rich, even overflowing, with glorious substance, beautiful settings, plentiful stimulation, and many fascinating people to talk to, and to work with, and to date. ( . . . )
Everyone else, the vast majority of humanity, lacks Reality Privilege—their online world is, or will be, immeasurably richer and more fulfilling than most of the physical and social environment around them in the quote-unquote real world.

The Reality Privileged, of course, call this conclusion dystopian, and demand that we prioritize improvements in reality over improvements in virtuality. To which I say: reality has had 5,000 years to get good, and is clearly still woefully lacking for most people; I don’t think we should wait another 5,000 years to see if it eventually closes the gap. We should build—and we are building—online worlds that make life and work and love wonderful for everyone, no matter what level of reality deprivation they find themselves in.”
— “Marc Andreessen – Interviewed by a Retard.” Niccolo Soldo, 31 May 2021

The opposite of reality privilege is “metaverse privilege” where problems (in the form of games), entertainment, social bonds, and even one’s own human potential, are valued and rewarded online, because none of those things are available to them offline. With a computer or computerphone, we can all possess metaverse privilege. However, not everyone will be able to enjoy a lovely, nutritious dinner, theatre show, party with friends and family, then return to their immaculate home full of satin, biological cotton, and silk. Peasants in the metaverse will simply have to make do with their Sims 4 creations and Netflix from inside their Ikea decorated cardboard boxes.

Did the internet really have to become an opiate and prison for the socially unwanted and unproductive? The least the detritus class of human beings can do is be useful to their elites.