[lbo-talk] Tweeters, Twitterers and Twats

[Wojtek S]

The Topkapi museum in Istanbul - which used to be the Ottoman sultans'
palace - has one passage way in which, the visitors are told, the
sultan would throw coins for being picked up by his waiting concubines
as he was passing to his chambers.

This is the quintessence of tweeting - it makes sense only if the
power relation between one who tweets and ones who follow resembles
that between the sultan and his concubines.  Bits and pieces that are
given off are of value only if one who gives off is in a vastly
superior position to those who pick up these bits and pieces.
Otherwise, their value is that of piece of trash being thrown away.

This is why I refuse tweeting.

Wojtek

On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 4:54 AM, Ismail Lagardien <ilagardien at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> if you tweet, please follow me - mainly so i can follow you
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> @ilagardien
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> Thanks
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> (apologies in advance if it is considered uncool to make requests like this)
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> Ismail Lagardien
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> Nihil humani a me alienum puto
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-- 
Wojtek

"An anarchist is a neoliberal without money."