In the virtual world, you present yourself from your best side. Social media accounts make it easy to delete critical comments and block unpleasant users. This creates a distorted image. People have always been fascinated by the deceptive shine of the surface. Images are the most powerful medium for convincing people and influencing them. Manipulating images and videos is increasingly becoming child's play with the help of modern programs. Influence is in most cases deception! Deception is everywhere on the web. Deepfake videos are becoming more and more perfect with the help of artificial intelligence, making it almost impossible to recognize them as fake. This makes them a serious security risk. For my part, I can only advise everyone: Get out of the virtual world; there is no end of trickery here.

In 2018, internet pioneer Jaron Lanier presented his most recent book at the time. In it, he warns of the dangers of the internet because of the ominous forces that are dangerously influencing contemporary democracy. Facebook, which Lanier considers to have a perverse business model, initially made no comment. Well, so much is perverse in this depraved world, where the cry for justice grows ever louder. If you want to be a friend of this world, don't you enjoy injustice? Murder and penal camps are replacing justice in many countries. We live in a world where civilian populations suffer in the chaos of modern armed violence, supported by arms supplies from rich countries. Dictators in Third World countries are backed by a lobby of multinational corporations. Justice begins in the heart.

How was Lanier's book “Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now” reviewed on Amazon? Wait, what is it actually about? It's about online portals that sell personal data to political actors. This harms democracy and promotes poverty, hatred, and alienation through constant, subtle MANIPULATION! “You are only manipulated and attacked to the extent that you allow it,” writes a German reader who couldn't do anything with this book. Is that true? Do we even notice when we are being manipulated? Doesn't every commercial try to force us to make a certain decision? As I said, in the end times, mankind is being manipulated into worshiping the Antichrist.

Lanier's book is written in a flippant language that will not appeal to everyone. That brings us to humor. Don't humorous people have the ability to recognize things in this world as complex and contradictory? Not everyone likes my writing style, either. Well, for me, there is no better way to go through life than with love and humor, and this is reflected in my language.

Jaron Lanier also recommends spending as little time as possible on the Internet. Internet surfers who are not very careful will not notice when foreign computers gain control of their own computer, which is then used for attacks on servers or websites. As an average consumer, it is difficult to imagine how tracks can be followed and data spied on in a global network. Corporations use such personal data to persuade users to behave in a certain way. Hats off to people like the former NSA employee Snowden, who risked their lives and their freedom by shedding light on things in order to raise public awareness of what is possible on the data network and how state powers use it to try to gain control. I respect whoever opens the eyes of the world. The Bible also advises us to bring light into this dark world. God is light. How it ends with the Internet is not written in Lanier's books but in the Bible. You don't believe that? I think the whore of Babylon mentioned in Revelation, who spans the world, is the Internet.