In the modern age, we have passed a line, a line that defines what reality is, a line that after we pass the world will not be the same, the human experience itself will be changed so much that it has separated from what it was before. Consciously or not, we all see it, even in the way we treat people who lived before the passing of this line; we excuse them for their lack of knowledge, as we acknowledge they didn’t have the resources that we do, and in a sense, we treat them like naive children. yet we can't say exactly when we passed this line. We did not realize that it happened until we saw the effects of it, we could not see what would have become of what we have made until it was too late, perhaps we were naive children back then.
the mass adoption of the internet, the line we passed is one that breaks the physical limits of information and allows for instance communication and information transfer to everywhere in the world, and this was not a result caused exclusively by the invention of internet but by a multifactorial technological development fueled by the mass adoption of the internet, the result of the combination of these technologies is a world where society is always connected socially and motivated to share and consume as much information as possible leading to a fast low fraction flow for all information and that is almost impossible to control or filter by anyone. Compared to a world where information is limited by physical presence and relevance to one's life, where the only information the common person had is what’s provided to them and is highly controlled and filtered either maliciously by the simple need to control or naively by social stigma.
The passing of this line had 2 massive effects, one is exclusive for those who grew up with the internet and a part of them was made by it, and the other affects everyone no matter how old and fully formed, if they use the internet for a while a part of them will be changed by it.
To me the internet seems like a mass orphanage with children running around expressing their instinctive desires, and where the only supervision is "mods" who have no reason to care for of these children and only try to stop them from hurting others.
But calling it an “orphanage” is misleading as a normal orphanage doesn't have a bunch of 30 year old computer savvy adults mixed up with the children.
The internet is a world in it self with it’s rules and logic, social norms and etiquettes to follow, it is a higher exaggerated reality that just happens to have a lot of unguided children with unrestricted access to all human knowledge and the ability to socialize with all and every kind of human you can think of!
in other words the process of socialization for them takes place in a pocket dimension of culture that creates outliers in the typically homogeneous social structure.
If you think calling them orphans is too much consider this:
If any of these children tried to get guidance about this new world from their real parents it will be almost impossible to explain to the parents any of the hundreds of the self referring novel concepts made in this boiling pot of ideas that is the internet to begin with let alone getting good advice, the child will have to talk through a bottleneck made by metaphors and estimations of meanings assuming that the child even speaks the same language in this world and he is not from a non english speaking country and just passively learned english using the internet.
That is all not considering the biggest issue, this child, no matter where they are in the world will have developed different values and beliefs than their parents, making communication even harder or even impossible. For the adults who lived through the mass adoption of the internet a part of them was changed by it, but for the children who grew up with the internet a part of them was made by it.
Depending on where you look in the world this phenomena will do more than just exacerbating the typical generational divide if the child was to use the internet in a certain way it will cause them to develop a completely different culture than their parents leading to divide between who they are on the internet and who they are in real life.
By children I don't mean only six year olds on roblox, if you started using the internet around 15 then im talking about you as well, a part of you was made here.
We have been raised by another father detached from this world on a never ending psychedelic trip feeding on knowledge, we have become absurd.
I just hope as we grow older we will be there for our children as we have survived here and may have acquired the wisdom needed to guide those who are after us in this new world and global culture.
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We are the middle children of history. Born too late to explore earth, born too early to explore the galaxy. But born just in time to explore the human mind
The internet becomes a reflection of the human mind
Many of us did not witness the transition between these two worlds either because they were too young or not born yet, the effects of this new world are vaguely understood scientifically speaking but for millions of us who grow in this new world the effects it had on us are clear as day It had left in us a feeling that in my opinion no piece of media I know of explains better than the movie (everything everywhere all at once)
"You’ve been feeling it too, haven’t you. Something is off. Your clothes never wear as well the next day. Your hair never falls in quite the same way. Even your coffee tastes …wrong. Our institutions are crumbling. Nobody trusts their neighbor anymore. And you stay up at night wondering, how can we get back?"
Overwhelming. is the closest word to it, but it’s more than just that it’s like I can see the world from the outside looking in, everything is absurd even the mundane everything is to be consumed all human feelings are enjoyed and exaggerated even the sad and the most unhinged of feelings is a madia for me to consumed/enjoy/observe I feel like an observer to this world rather than a living part of it.
Un-stigmatisation, the breaking of concepts, the loss of meanings, the spread of absurdity, a realization of the surreality of this world, the end of tradition.
I struggle to describe it in words, the internet has called all of human behavior on the stage for questioning and there seems to be a need to go against any and all illogical prohibitions.
stigma is a great tool to keep people in order with no real rules as they will shame themselves and others for expressing or being correlated with the stigma, with the anonymity of the internet those who want to express what is stigmatized can find refuge and make communities and collect power naturally normalizing the stigmatized merely by existing as a collective of people. Have you noticed the normalization of all kinds of sexual fetishes on the internet recently? sexual fetishes are only the most simple of stigmas as sex itself is stigmatized. But there are more complex stigmas that are being normalized all around the internet we can't say for sure if it is for the better or worse for us but there is no stopping it that's for sure, mental illness is a good example of this, the normalization of gore/pedos on some parts of the internet is a bad example of this. And if you don't know what I’m talking about here, good.
here we dissect the common quote "Those were different times"
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Ok i see
I will check with you in a week
Thank s for the feedback
Will go sleep now
Cuz god i'm losing it
I can see the screen
This is good
Im feeling it
I will make a vid out of this
Vc later
I have a vision.
Original: Consciously or not, we all see it, even in the way we talk about the people who lived before the passing of this line; we talk about them as if they were excused for their lack of knowledge, add another point/example here, in a sense we treat them like naive children.
Re-written: Consciously or not, we all see it, even in the way we treat people who lived before the passing of this line; we excuse them for their lack of knowledge,we say they didn’t possess the resources that we do, and in a sense, we treat them like naive children.
Possibly expand on “they didn’t possess the resources that we do” since that’s the point of this script. A transition like: “And, to a certain degree, that’s true; passing the line has given us xyz… But with all of these resources that we were given, there are certain things that will never be the same again…
Very rough but you get the idea
Jul 4, 2023