在网上总是很有压力，但最近，感觉有些不同。一直以来都有恶棍和丑陋的新闻故事，但最近几个月，我们开始捕捉到一个更大的设计可怕的一瞥。我们感觉到社交媒体清洗和离线应用背后潜藏着一种恐惧，一种理解是，仅仅是网络电子产品的出现就将我们深深地吸引到了总是萦绕在我们无法理解的胡言乱语的黑暗海洋中。

几天前的晚上，我偶然遇到一个叫“astercrash”的Tumblr用户的断断续续的漫谈，这让事情变得非常清楚。

We’ve got this dimension right next to ours, that extends across the entire planet, and it is just brimming with nightmares. We have spambots, viruses, ransomware, this endless legion of malevolent entities that are blindly probing us for weaknesses, seeking only to corrupt, to thieve, to destroy.

Add onto that the corrupted ones themselves, humans who’ve abandoned morality and given up faces to hunt other people, jeering them, lashing out, seeing how easy it is to kill something you can’t touch or see or **ell. They’ll corrupt anything they think could be a vessel for their message and they’ll jabber madly at any who question them. Their chittering haunts every corner of the internet. They are not unlike the spambots in some ways.

Add on top of that the arcane magisters, who are forever working at the cracks between our world and the world we made. Some of them do it for fun, some of them do it for wealth, others do it for the power of nati*** unwise enough to trust them. There are mages who work to defend against this particular evil, but they are mad prophets, and their advice is almost never heeded, even by those who keep them as protection.

这很有道理！网络安全人士倾向于认为互联网是一个无止境的威胁源，但现在，大批克里姆林宫支持的麻烦**者正在散布伯尼·桑德斯的丁字裤图纸，以削弱美国的决心，这种清醒的噩梦比以往任何时候都更有道理。在我们当中，有谁在一个深夜的浏览之后，没有感觉到一种古老而难以形容的恐怖的疯狂的隆隆声？在互联互通的阴霾中，我们不都被同一个噩梦般的预兆所吸引吗？

也许不是在Instagram上。