During my Sociology studies, I read this in parallel with ‘Eight Ideal Conditions for the Flowering of Autocracy’ and ‘Arguments for the Elimination of Television’
What they point to is the false promises of “products” like 𝕏 and the effective cloche they provide in aid of these goals.
It would be a sociologist that would take the time to search up a fancy symbol "𝕏" for a companies' branding.
I can't wait until we achieve complete brand saturation and revert to pictographic communication using only official branding symbols. The ASCII symbols disappear from everyone's keyboards and become ancient glyphs. Only the global elite can afford to spend the time learning this ancient script, but it comes with a powerful benefit. Through the ritual magic of Prompt Engineering, the ancient script unlocks the true power of GPT-11. While us mortals can only communicate vague moods in emoji and receive a symbolic stream of consumer goods and branding in response, those who speak the ancient script have the power of millions of undergraduate essays of varying accuracy.
What they point to is the false promises of “products” like 𝕏 and the effective cloche they provide in aid of these goals.