RE: Can you exist if the Internet doesn't know it?
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It's good to be thinky! : )
We witnessed the funniest scene last night during a walk around the neighborhood. A twenty something girl was in a small field, dressed up like she was going out for the evening. She was attempting to fly a kite (one of those old fashioned ones that are nearly impossible to fly) while trying to film herself doing it. I would venture a guess that she was streaming it on TikTok.
You just have to laugh sometimes, or cry. You're 100% correct in that few people are paying attention anymore. That goes for -- driving, walking their dogs or their children in a stroller, at dinner, etc. Most people are either looking at their phones or on a call. Society is paying (and will continue pay) a high price for this.
If you're not tethered to your phone in public you are a minority and it feels like you're in a sea of robots who aren't even fully conscious.
So accurate and recognizable it's sad. It's sad because at this point, I feel the only hope for many is to encounter something or someone, ironically, in their virtual world to shift their focus toward reality once more. Else they just keep going.
Yeah, these TikTok kids are funny, but also in a sad way. That they'd be willing to dance in public or do whatever for Internet "notoriety", but not for their soul, that's mad.
Augmented reality might be the answer, in a roundabout way. At least what people are immersed in now will be overlayed on top of "reality". We'll soon find out! Hopefully this puts an end to the mobile phone zombies! Lol.
I totally agree! So many of these kids will experience an existential crisis once they are forced to wake up. It will be very, "Truman Show-esque".
At the risk of sounding cliche here, the world is a place of such incomprehensible beauty, and we need a screen or a game to get us to look at it. Fucking hell.