From Tunnel Vision to the Cyber-Covid Attack

We live in an age of widespread commercial hypnosis. Platoons of vile spinoffs march in its wake, but the poisonous rise of Facebook was the ultimate mass-hypnosis success story. Carefully designed to exploit the weak-spots in normal human minds, Facebook drilled down to make them weaker still. The  distribution of handheld TV and photography studios completed the loop of self-idolatry. Anyone at all was now free to pursue celebrity, fame and fortune, equipped with nothing more than _________