Meditation for September 24th, 2016
The Internet Is Really Boring
Well, the Internet has been around for a few decades now and really it hasn’t been all that fun. There was this great promise of free information and social media, but it just is super boring.
We flick through our phones and spend hours going down Yourube holes because we just can’t stand a little time as ourselves. We argue like we’ve never argued before in real life online because in person we are cowards.
We wait impatiently for reactions to what we post on social media. We posted a video that proves our point, we post a meme making fun of the opposing view, we post news without fact checking, but because of how it made us feel, we post it not knowing it is false.
The Internet didn’t bring us closer together it became a tool to divide us even more. In person we follow etiquettes and social graces, but now behind the anonymity of the web, we can be as nasty as we want to be.
There is a billionaire spending his money not helping the opposition win, but creating nasty trolling memes of Hillary Clinton. This is what passes as politics.
The videos and the pictures and the articles desensitizes us so we don’t know how to actually emotionally react to injustices. We try to explain to people with the written word how to feel about these images. We are no longer shocked by violence.
We make jokes about it.
We combine it with a La Croix joke.
The Internet isn’t telling the truth, it isn’t creating democracy, it isn’t bringing each side to the table to see the other side’s point of view, it isn’t even that great for games.
It is just the thing that we watch tv on and can still tell people that we don’t have a tv.
All the Internet is is hate, hate disguised as humor, entertainment through traditional medias mixed with social interactive sites, and nostalgia.