Up From Below

In the age of the web 2.0 revolutions, it’s clearer now more than ever that technology has taken its toll on modern life and the general idea of consensus. The idealism of the past has been diluted and dissected. We have become more absorbed with individualised opinions confined to textual and visual spiels of rancour or love that, in their minutiae, are all essentially different. Technology an d its advances were meant to liberate and entice us into new realms of communion, when in essence it has divided opinion even further than before. Although the like-minded do tend to group together in smaller groups (hello all!).