The most important invention in your lifetime is…
Albeit in the case of the Internet, it turns out it’s more of a double edged sword.
As for the lux meaning light thingie, one may say the Internet has revolutionized all walks of life and everything on Earth.
I call bovis stercus on this bold claim.
Oh, the Net has done all of that and more.
It also brought about Big Brother and made true all of Orwell’s nightmarish predictions. It led to a curtail of privacy rights all in the name of Privacy. It eroded our freedoms (of speech for one) in the name of protecting Freedom.
The Internet paved the way for social media, the most toxic of weapons disguised as a tool for bringing people together.
I for one saw it all coming together in a nefarious fashion some 27 years back. That’s when I first realized that the Internet’s anonymity, in stead of making us better with one another, made us act as rabid dogs fighting through a goddamn fence.
The psychology is there, folks. We only care about that which we can see, touch, feel, and know directly.
And the Internet is the epitome, the poster-child of anonymity itself. And that was when I realized that billions of walls of separation, dividers were being installed by us, each time we went online, by disconnecting from the real world, made up of real people.
We abandoned reality for manufactured lies.
Social media is toxic because it makes us vulnerable. We become vulnerable because we are dependent on it.
Do me a favour, will you?
Stop going online, checking your phone so often!
And if that means you don’t visit my blog, so be it.
I’ll be happy for you. You will be happier for it.
Don’t thank me just now. Just do it!
Götterdämmerung 