10:57 and I can’t sleep.
Is loneliness a kind of survival instinct, a desire to rejoin the strong numbers of the tribe for fear of the wolves? Is loneliness a product of our modern society? Technology allows vast numbers of the unfit and unhealthy to survive on their own.
We’re not born alone and we usually grow up in some kind of group. Even if you’re grown in a Hasbro gene vat, there’s a few other backup copies in there too. But where is the tribe now? We’re letting technology create these new templates simply for the sake of it. Paradigms aren’t shifting because we’re on the cusp of some new era. It’s because someone is selling something. And all blog irony aside, we’re a generation away from forgetting what we offered up on the altar in exchange for our digital “communities.”
self rigthtoues quasi intelectual reaping what you are sowing
Hey drey, know what you mean. I’m going to throw a little “polyanna” in there for ya (perhaps it’s because I’m sleep deprived that I can maintain the optimism), but perhaps the digital world allows us to transcend spacial boundaries so as to find a much better fit of a tribe for all of us. Back in the day we may have been limited to the direct people we were in physical proximity to. I shudder to think about having to pick someone to get married to in the town I grew up in at this point, or having my friends limited to their number. The only problem is that we find our “right” tribe, but we are then missing the physical necessity of proximity to other humans that comes with being a collective. We get a super big bonus, but also a large drawback that I think maybe we have to figure out how to solve. (and BTW, I think our anonymous friend should learn how to spell before they get all high and mighty:)