Facebook is dead, long live Meta. But, actually, Meta is dead, too.
Let me explain.
On Thursday, Mark Zuckerberg unveiled the new name for Facebook to mark its transition to what he calls “the metaverse.” The name, which is, perhaps unsurprisingly, Meta, doesn’t translate well. Unless that’s the point.
While the word, now applied to such narratively self-aware works as “Adaptation” and “Deadpool,” derives from the Greek prefix meaning “after” or beyond,” and indicates something that transcends the word it latches onto (think metaphysics), in Hebrew the word “Meta” is the feminine form of “is dead.” Don’t just take my word for it!
“Meta” in Hebrew means “is dead”. ?— Michael Dickson (@michaeldickson) October 28, 2021
Meta means “dead” in Hebrew (feminine adjective).
Mark Zuckerberg must have slept through Hebrew class. pic.twitter.com/B7W9273EGK— Emmanuel Navon עמנואל נבון ?? (@emmanuelnavon) October 28, 2021
I know it has no importance but the translation of the word meta in Hebrew = she is dead.
Does it mean that FB is dead?.
Looks like it was killed by its dad.— RHS שהחיינו וקיימנו והגיענו לזמן הזה (@rachelhsh) October 29, 2021
Hebrew speakers may have chuckled at Zuckerberg’s pronouncement, from an eerily art-directed room, that Meta was chosen to better reflect “who we are and what we hope to build.” The metaverse he’s building, may be a subtle multilingual counter to Trump’s golem-esque Truth platform, with the Hebrew words “Emet” (Truth) and “Met” (Death) both playing a big role in the golem story.
It would be funny if it wasn’t all so morbid, seeming to portend the flailing end of a tech empire hoping to distract from intense public scrutiny prompted by a litany of scandals brought to light by reporting and a whistleblower.
Is Meta’s birth — or rather, naming — announcement really a proof of death? Only if Zuck is being meta in the self-aware sense and knows some Hebrew.
Zuckerberg’s company, by any other name, is now alleged to be a major source of societal rot, from devouring the self-esteem of teenagers to peddling misinformation to maintaining a startlingly feckless — or worse, laissez-faire — approach to policing hate speech.
So who really died here, with the rise of Meta? Society as we know it? The pre-Zuckerverse, where us poor plebes couldn’t text via Ray-Ban-branded augmented reality glasses while pretending to be paying attention to an in-person conversation?
The answer, far from an acknowledgment of defeat to the slings and arrows of Congressional investigation and investor distress, appears to be an invitation to a danse macabre, implicating us in the demise of life as we know it as he strives to “bring the metaverse to life.”
“Our mission remains the same, it’s still about bringing people together,” Zuckerberg insisted.
Sounds like a shiva.
Meta means ‘is dead’ in Hebrew. Discuss.
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Original Article: https://forward.com/culture/477390/meta-dead-hebrew-facebook-mark-zuckerberg-new-name-metaverse/
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Let’s not forget Zuckerbum stole the concept of FB from his classmates, and then paid them a measly token $300mil to shut them up! Zuck’s net worth is over $18 Billion!
Oh that is too funny Zuck!!! Sort of reminds me of GM in the 1960’s named their car Nova and tried to market it in Hispanic Central and South America where Nova means no go. I think the Zuck violated the first law of naming a product which is to make sure the name does not mean anything negative anywhere.
I think the reason he came up with Meta is for meta humans and he’s in with the corona virus and that’s the vaccine that alters DNA just think about it
I think he is saying the universe or world we know is dead. We already know how they hate God and want to believe they are gods . And if they had their way we the peasants would in a sense worship them or not live. Not anything like Our God of the universe. They actually believe that somehow through their crazy science they can live forever. These globalist will lose their own souls to try to gain the whole world.
I don’t know why anyone has Facebook or whatever they want to call it, it’s s**t. I don’t have it never will. If I haven’t talked to you in 20 years there is probably a reason for it. Facebook is a complete waste of time and you’re making this pos even richer.