According to Byung Chul-Han, what is fundamentally lacking from the screen image is the gaze. There is no chance for an irruption of the real, no chance for an encounter with the other. It is a feast of consumption with no danger of the uncanny turning to gaze upon us. He interprets our mass production of images and digital media as a defense against the world, as a defactifying of the world.
Han identifies outrage as an affective state which is dissipated and distracted and fleeting. He contrasts this with rage, the rage of Achilles, which is the power to act and to change something into something else. This action creates a future and in our current condition we cannot act and there is no future, as such.
We can all apply a post hoc form of explanation meant to aid narrative formation but like the series of circles we described above, the imago mundi we get is not a satisfying representation of our own experience.
There are lessons both in victory and in bitter defeat but none at all in irresoluble, manufactured chaos.
Word of the Frontier 