My new consumption habits have changed considerably since November 5 of last year. I do not watch the news, I do not listen to it, sometimes I scan the big titles, but the only things I have read with regularity are the new sports, the new scientists, the new health, and I also like to browse the first pages of various newspapers in the United States. One thing I have never read is the technological section. Well, almost never.
Today, in an attempt to expand my horizons and stimulate a different line of thinking, I opened the technological section, expecting that, perhaps, to read on the cryptocurrency, the stock of Nvidia, the supercalculculculculé, the cybersecurity, or the last number of AI, but instead, what I found was a story after a story on online video games, in particular, Avowed, Nintendo, Ubisoft, Rockstar, Rockser, Nighed, Ninteno, Ubisof Piratefi, Tomb Raider, Portal 2, Baldur’s Gate and several others. Having never played an online video game, everything was Greek for me – another sentence given to us (perhaps not originally) by Shakespeare, which means “it is in a language that I do not understand”.
My first thought by seeing all these video game stories was the glory of coronation of our great technology? … These games? I hoped to read something that could give me hope, as discovering that someone has proposed a technique of financially viable desalination to solve our water problems, or that we are increasingly getting closer to cold fusion or hydrogen – (not just companies and billionaires who benefit from the bizarre industry “technology giants”, now, are in the political section). Then, I have softened and I thought, what better use of technology is it there than adding a little more pleasure to our lives?
I realized that it is simply a question of terminology, that this is what they call “technology” these days, which was not as shocking as when I realized (from the 90s, I think) that what they called “R&B”, as a musical genre, did not look like what I had grew and listened.
And it is then that it really struck me, that I have no connection with this thing-and by “this thing”, I mean things of this digital, virtual electronic algorithmic world, generated by a-generos and marked of mass, which, I know, place me again, outside the dominant current.
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I suppose that it is not an unusual feeling for people, if they live long enough, to reach a point where they no longer feel connected to the modern world or in the times they live.
When it happens, then what?
I assume that an option is that you can try to educate yourself in new technologies and keep aware of the best you can, what I only do insofar as it affects my ability to create and communicate. You can withdraw nostalgically to the past, which I also do from time to time because I like to tell stories and laughter and share a private language and personal references with my friends. Another option, when you feel disconnected with current times, is to kiss and embody timely truths.
There is so much that one of us might think about: you harvest what you sow, change is constant, energy cannot be created or destroyed, but those of which I speak implies the feeling of confidence, protection and arrangement which comes from the opening and the rest of your heart; The effectiveness of looking someone in the eye and connecting, the power of a smile, the importance of the way you make someone feel and the wisdom that comes only from experience.
I do not want to position myself as an enemy of technology, but I have no interest in joining the precipitation to fuel a system and a movement that decreases our humanity, weakens our faculties and promotes virtual reality on the pursuit of the truth.