An interior monologue is never fully
“interior.” There are rather plenty of signs in the external
world that it is taking place or has taken place; in the more obvious
cases, a dazed facial expression, or perhaps some nervous or
irritated movement that signals a “wrestling with an interior lie.”
In the senate hearing, this exterior “body language” does not get
formally highlighted, but, informally, it can easily be the stuff of
senators' imaginations, the stuff of their daydreams, or the daydreams of those dazed-looking aides and others that sit behind them. The problem,
for Mark Zuckerberg, is if a senator's imaginative speculations and
daydreams about his interior monologue and body language yields accurate insights into
whether he is telling the truth to the committee, or even what
exactly he is lying about. Let us remind him then, after thinking on
Deleuze: “Be aware of the other's daydreams!”
Mark Zuckerberg himself, of course, most probably knows about the informal power of the imaginative senator who seeks
the most “stifling” and formal of moments in his or her career to
imagine or daydream Mark Zuckerberg's interior monologue, right there
and then when the world is watching, in order to get at the important
truths or lies that Mark Zuckerberg is wrestling with within the
confines of his mind. Indeed, Mark Zuckerberg knows that for some, to
imagine or daydream his interior monologue is the
highlight of a career. Or he knows the irony: the ones sitting behind him, bored and daydreaming and not vested with the authority to pose questions to him, are at that very moment having the most accurate visions by which to pose actually illuminating questions to him.
The purpose of Facebook's leading
question “What's on your mind?” is, in a manner illuminating of
Facebook's drive to publish private matters, to render readable
precisely the interior monologues of its users. And Facebook's
concern is not just any interior monologue, but the one that goes on
within the minds of people at the most critical juncture, event or
crisis of their lives. One day in the near future, if Facebook is
used seriously, obediently and completely, every element of
the user's interior life will be rendered exterior and public in every situation the user is in. That model of
Facebook should be the inspiration for the senators posing questions
to Mark Zuckerberg in any future hearing.
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