Undercurrent

No real scandal today without text messages. If it’s David Beckham’s mistresses, Sven Göran Eriksson’s affairs or Henning Berg’s “honest” revelations about the inner life of Norwegian footballers – the core of all these “shocks” are a few short, fragmented, more or less coherently constructed sentences or keywords transmitted per SMS. Lovers carefully building the suspense of long love letters, enemies systematically looking for the weak spot in the opponent’s defense in a duel of words – no more. The text message is a razor that cuts to the bone. The next European earthquake in politics or business will certainly involve the publication of supersecret text messages. The youth with their strangely coded SMS language were the vanguard, but the elites will catch up sooner or later.

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