In retrospect, the “smart” era is starting to look like an error – of catastrophic proportion. Ditching TeeVee, mooooovies, and the socials may not be enough. Some days now, I ponder if electricity was a mistake. The spy phones and screens certainly were.

The byword is “transparency,” and I totally reject it, although if I weren’t writing for the gentile folks of Takimag I’d use different phrasing. Here you had that greedy slob Zuckerberg selling the digital privacy of hundreds of millions who naively trusted the bum, and also selling children’s data and tracking people’s movements, and the guy is walking around free and unharmed. Remember when the Russians lived ten in a room with a simple sheet hanging between families in the same room for privacy? We’re heading back to those days, thanks to the tech giants run by those good-looking people out west. Think about it and weep, but before that, get rid of the smartphone and feel free again.

And, honestly, if you look closely at them, most of those social westies don’t even look that good.