Sparks: ‘Tech firms are losing the public’: social media age bans near tipping point

Education formerly consisted of aligning the mind with the Virgin, but now we merely scramble to erect legal barricades against the Dynamo's acceleration, which flings our children into a century for which no philosophy exists.

Operational sequences intended for the analytical processing of data have become weaving looms of social habit, yet we find the engine’s creators unable to calculate the moral variables of the very minds they have integrated.

What we call social connectivity is, upon rigorous classification, a frantic induction of unverified phenomena that fails the test of consilience by collapsing the foundational structures of adolescent moral philosophy.

Observe how the digital current mirrors the turbulence of a mountain stream, where the youngest reeds are uprooted by the sheer velocity of a mechanism that possesses no governing rudder to balance its immense force.

Government is finally getting around to passing a law to keep kids off the computer, which is about as effective as trying to stop a dust storm by closing the screen door.

Legislative bans are the desperate resentment of a decaying herd that, having lost the strength to discipline its own offspring, now seeks to poison the well of the very machine it created to escape itself.

The merchant's invisible hand is replaced by a visible grasp for the attention of babes, proving that when competition fails to constrain the projector, the state must intervene to protect the basic propriety of the market.

You hand your child a glass mirror that reflects only their own vanity and then scream for the police when the glass shatters and draws blood from their innocent hands.

Current social architectures are leaking immense psychological energy through a faulty circuit, and rather than redesigning the frequency of the entire grid, we are merely trying to insulate the smallest wires with paper laws.

A general who allows the enemy to occupy the minds of his youth has already surrendered the high ground and will find no fortification strong enough to hold a city that has conquered itself.

The proposed age limit is a bourgeois palliative that stabilizes the predatory structure of the tech monopoly by pretending the problem is the maturity of the user rather than the commodity form of the platform itself.

Things that are unseemly: a child who knows the workings of a glowing box better than the scent of plum blossoms, and a merchant who grows rich by stealing the quiet of the morning.