It's been a while since I last logged in my Facebook account. Why? Because I was spending too much time on it, I was involuntarily checking the page every 15 minutes for updates, craving for news from people that are currently not part of my life anymore. That is the negative effect Facebook was having on me: forcing me to spend time and energy with more people that I can handle, all together, and was not giving me the reward I always got, which is to become more intimate with each individual, have the feeling of being part of someone's life and have someone be part of mine. Millions of users access the website daily for many different purposes, and I was already starting to wonder if I was alone in my dilemma. Turns out there are many of us, books have already been published on this topic, I would not be surprised to find a Facebook page dedicated to this. I will share all the different ways Facebook seems to be affecting people on the next lines, and if you agree, well... I...
The serie (and movies) Ghost in the Shell was an enormous success, and I really recommend it for all anime lovers. There is however one point in the story of the Stand Alone Complex when the Tachikomas gain individuality. That point is really interesting because then, they claim to understand what God is. While they had a collective consciousness they never really cared about what would happen to them when they "stopped working" (or die, if you will). However when they realized each one of them was one special unique being, they started caring. And then they realized God is just the representation of emptiness. It is the equivalent to "0" in digital world. It is the symbol created to represent the absence. Indeed, one of God's main role is concerning the pos-life, what happens to us after we pass away. If we really did know we would not die, would we really think about God? Just something to think about...
Comments
Post a Comment