Because everything is about me! That is what I
love most about the modern world!
Instead of conforming myself to the world around me, technology allows
me to remake the world in my image. What
is truth? Whatever I feel is true. What is beautiful or good? Whatever I happen to subjectively enjoy at
any given moment. There is no absolute,
there is only me.
That is why
I am on twetter. I don’t have to seek
truth, I can pick news sources that confirm what I already think. And instead of having to interact with people
that are different than me, I can enter a digital world that allows me to
exclude any and every one that I choose!
If I feel
this way, why go on the World Wide Web? So
what if everyone is connecting on the “internets”? If I think it is dehumanizing, why not
connect exclusively in physical space?
As this
whole digital fad seems to be sticking around, I recognized that I have to live
with this reality in mind. People are
connecting more and more electronically and if I want to connect with people, I
will have to too. I can’t stomach fakebook
and this particular internet location turns out to be the most popular. So instead of impotently raging against the
machine, I have decided to try to reappropriate its mechanisms for more noble
ends. After all, how do you defeat a
beast? You climb into its belly and cut
your way out. (This is a sophisticated
way of justifying the fact that I have in fact SOLD OUT).
All kidding
aside, I am ready to connect in deep, significant, and lasting ways 140
characters at a time!
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