http://dissidentvoice.org/2010/12/a-tale-of-two-websites/His dead, soulless eyes gaze out from the red borders of the magazine with a thousand mile stare; the photograph looks like an android failing the Voight-Kampff test, or the mug-shot of a frat boy baked on XTC; but this is not just another arrogant whelp of privilege and nepotism, this glassy-eyed perp is Mark Zuckerberg, the billionaire monomaniac behind Facebook and its 550 million willing victims.
This is Time Magazine’s Person of the Year.
If, as Charles Eisenstein writes in the Ascent of Humanity, the process of capitalism is the transformation of life into money,1 then Facebook’s relentless march into the commoditization of privacy2 and the wholesale monetization of human relationships3 is at the vanguard of capital’s final war against reality.
Zuckerberg is nothing more than a particularly driven and fortunate cynic: like others, he recognized a previously unenclosed portion of the cultural commons, so he malevolently fenced it off and put it up for sale. It seems he also stole his business idea from his Harvard classmates,4 broke into early Facebook user’s emails,5 and considers his users to be “dumb fucks”6 — topics never mentioned in Time‘s eight thousand word reportorial blowjob of boy wonder.
