The more I gaze throughout the internet, as little as I do to avoid drama, the more I see people lose themselves in the confines of the internet. I partially blame Covid-19 for a severe altercation in the behavior of millions of people's behavior, because when you condition an entire population to be anti-social...it can have an impact that lasts a lifetime.
Meanwhile, to compensate, some people take to pursue that which isn't real, but hyper-real. A sensation of realism that in my personal opinion, can only be felt in the realm of imagination. The hyper-real, is that which seems larger than life itself, and to many it can feel inviting, maybe even enticing. Because who wouldn't want to live out the best life that they can possible imagine? Anyone would.
But where would you find it? In the hyper-real, in the internet? In which what seems like an entire virtual world, but...is little more than striates of code, which when combined with pixels and polygons...make a moving picture?
Sometimes I wonder what life is like on the other side of the screen for people, the real people, who sit on the other side of the screen, rather than the avatars people like to portray as. If the internet is a tool inherently used for communication... then...why not?
Why is it not used as a tool for communication as often as one would idealize? But rather, the opposite, as a source to cut off communication with others? And how can we as a collective species learn to embrace communication once more?