I started to talk about clutter on my first post. . . Because I believe clutter has become one of the biggest impediments to connect with others and, more importantly, with ourselves.
Just look at the amount of daily tasks required to "stay on top." Combined all your emails, your Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter accounts, plus all the news that we keep digesting in one form or another, plus all the websites you have registered with, just to be able to buy something, which needs to be opened, updated, verified, plus your personal blog, and you have a phenomenal time management monster in your hands consuming most of our days. And this even before you can start being productive, go to work, and have a social and family life.
I often wondered how did we manage our lives before the internet took over. How did human contact take place? How did we shop? We live in a physical world. So when I referred to the paradigm shift occurring between the scientist and the rat, I am beginning to see patterns of behaviors that suggest that we have become the slave to the machine? It is no longer the software and the technology that facilitates our lives. It is our lives that work around the limitation of technology.
Although I am very tempted to talk about the restriction of the technology, I will keep the subject for another post. Today I am most interested in talking about human connection.
What are we doing to ourselves? Why would we create a society where the technology under the guise of connecting us with the rest of the world, in fact does just the opposite. It disconnects us from ourselves. It buries us under endless requirement to manage and process data. And this gives us a very good excuse to stay away from our inner emotional core. It separates us from each other.
The excuse is perfect in the 24x7 society, there is no need to spend time with ourselves. The distraction remains constant and consistent. This is the perfect place to hide, to remain away from many real human interactions. To take refuge in the simulation of reality.
Nothing ever will replace a direct human experience. The e-society may feel like reality but it is merely a fantasy. A fictional rendition of a wishful representation. We relate better to the technology that brings us together rather than the people on the other side. Our lives like our emotions take a fictionalize account. We surrender our humanity at the expenses of its manifestation. Of course this submission results in major confusion and loss when it comes to meaning, purpose, and values in life.
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