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The society that your parents knew is restructuring into a fractured collective. I was thinking, for once, because my internet connection was disabled, because my mom had to get some work done, and the router is dying, so they bypassed the router and hooked the downstairs computer directly to the cable modem (this means the router, which hooks my computer up to my network, isn't hooked up to the internet, and transitively makes me not hooked up to the internet, for those of you that are uninformed). Anyway, what I was thinking is probably more interesting than why I was thinking. I thought of how my life as of late has grown around a digital existence, my computer, and the internet. I realized just how much time I spend interacting with others through the internet, as opposed to in person. For people like me (or worse), we start to become an individual, seperate from the collective of people, that relies on digital means to become a part of society. For others, that collective is already there, they don't have to use a computer, their interaction is generally in person. Thus forming the fractured collective: one 'group' of people, seperated in the physical plane, providing input to and recieving output from a digital collective, and another that doesn't rely on artificial means for interaction with others. For those of us without lives in the real world, finding a digital society more accepting, perhaps finding companionship, friends, and support, in a digital pseudo-existence, we need that crucial link for it all to happen. We must have computers (yeah, everyone has a computer), and we need an internet connection. For us, it isn't exactly what they teach in health class. "All healthy individuals need to feel accepted, need to feel loved, need to..." yeah that stuff. At least for me, it's more along the lines of "Need internet connection, need recieving end for interaction, need to be able to imagine all of those other things coming from my internet connecti on." Right now most of my existence is being emulated by Mystera Legends (2d online rpg, oh yes). The most prominent problems in my life: the lag in Mystera Legends, and not enough monitors to support my hunger for multi-tasking. Hm, I don't know but I don't think people with such requirements for 'social interaction,' if you can call it that, could interact properly with people that do not require such things. For better understanding, imagine a race of aliens that must have special brain implants that allow brain signals to be transmitted. These signals allow this race of aliens to communicate (and this race represents the digitally dependant individuals). These creatures have no mouth, ears, eyes, and simply no other sense that could be used to alternatively communicate. Another race of aliens does not need such devices implanted in their heads. They have eyes, mouths (and vocal cords) to speak, and ears to hear with. These aliens represent the group that can bypass the digital input/output step when socializing. Imagine trying to get the race with brain implants to understand the race that can speak and hear. It just wouldn't work. Perhaps this is overexaggerated, but this is the direction that (at least part of) society is going.
Current Music: The Matrix
Current Mood: satisfied
 Daakafal · Fri Dec 31, 2004 @ 05:12am · 0 Comments |
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