The Authoritarian Book Review Website
Take a gander at this.
After every review, there’s a question: ‘Like this review?’ You can click on ‘yes’, but there is no ‘no’ option! What is this, the Stalinist intarwebs? Dissension not allowed? This is exactly the sort of thing Delaney was warning us about in The Fall of the Towers. I mean, sure, pretend that no one really needs to say no. It’s convenient, and no one gets annoyed. But soon other websites will start copying it for this same reason. In a year, you won’t be able say no to anything, only yes. Because you can’t say no, you’ll just assume that no never existed, and bury the idea that you can say no deep inside your head, repressed by the horrible guilt of every review you respond ‘yes’ to that should have been a ‘no.’
In five years, the whole world is stuck in one of two equally disturbing scenarios. In the first scenario, the inability of the entire population to dissent to anything leads to the rise of a totalitarian government that invents a war to solve the resource shortages caused by the society’s yes-saying excesses. In the second, you have the plot of yet another terrible Jim Carrey movie.
Either way, we have to guard against this sort of thing, and that’s what I’m here for. Yup: No. 1, protector of freedoms. That’s me.
One Response
not so unlike the “like” option on facebook.
where is my “dislike” option?
if you are right, we might become unable to actively express aversion now that the option has been taken away from us. that would lead to an eventual inability to actually feel dislike. i can’t imagine anything more disastrous that could coincide with yet another awful Jim Carrey movie.
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