I’m starting to miss MySpace — that once innocent online small town quiet bar with music, casual chatter, and no national actors trying to actively overthrow democracy (looking at you, Zuck and Elon). Web 3.0 hasn’t quite lived up to its promise yet and I have some nostalgia for the innocence of the mid-aughts debut of Web 2.0’s sandbox interactivity, so I’ve plunked this blog down in the middle of my social media-induced nightmare and carved some petroglyphs.
That sounded much more heroic, and, therefore, interesting, in my head.
Web 3.0 is the 21st century equivalent of the fabled Wild West — a vast expanse of nearly limitless potential soiled by shysters and snake oil (in modern parlance, “cryptobros” and “NFTs”). Because history is cyclical, all the rich people live in the East and the underclass is sent out to hostile territories — now known as “Red states” — to plow the earth and make it livable for the more delicate big oil interests.
The musky whiff of saddle leather and lye soap yields quickly when one realizes that everyone really did die of dysentery — at least metaphorically.
Wild West laissez-faire capitalism monopolized by robber barons killed thousands of people. The new Gilded Age is killing millions, because economies of scale are important when considering that record corporate profits will somehow trickle down to workers, despite 40 years of empirical data unequivocally proving the opposite.
*sigh*
It’s late and I’m tired of howling. Time to rest up and howl more tomorrow.
Yes, Web 3.0 really does suck in its current form. For updates on how that’s shaking out, please visit the superb blog Web 3 is Going Just Great
Howling Yeti 
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