Hell and LinkedIn and Shakespeare.

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If there is a hell, an actual, physical hell of burning lakes and cloven-footed devils, I’m more than 99% sure that some resident of therein by now has perfected a social media platform to connect gullible hellions.

It would probably be called StinkedIn and it would be only slightly less pernicious than the version our terrestrial world currently uses.

First, it would be over-run by devils like Gary Satanchuk and his legion of (almost invariably blonde) she-devils who post 97 pieces of video horror, nonsensical homilies, and shameless, cloying, loud and obnoxious self-promotion every hour.

These assertive Succubae would populate your StinkedIn feed like ants at a picnic. You could attempt to un-stink with everyone who likes their bald-faced bullshit, but still their frenzied, Sulphur-smelling effluence would find you and pollute your feed and your mind.

After all, this is hell.

Then there is the hell of the Hallmark greeting cards type. That is, offal-spewers who post asinine statements that offer nothing but affirmation of the limited intelligence of the poster. “Today is the first day,” they post “of the rest of your eternal damnation. Let’s make the most of it!!!” With the requisite and disgusting three exclamation points.

The lowest of the low, of course, in the StinkedIn underworld are those who cloy their way into connection-hood, and then, almost immediately commence the selling process, without having taken the six or so seconds to determine if you’re the sort of person who buys what they’re selling.

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Way back in the early 2000s, my brilliant older daughter, Sarah, got a small part in her high school presentation of Shakespeare’s “The Tempest.” Sarah played the role of Ariel and she dutifully incorporated rehearsing her lines into her daily life.

It was not unusual to see Sarah going about her business and declaiming, “Hell is empty and all the devils are here.” It was a line she related to at 14 and understands even better today. In this benighted age who doesn't?

Shakespeare, of course, knew nothing of social media.

But he understood it all too well.