People get their circle of friends and associates, and that becomes their whole world, which in turn becomes the whole world.
You're right - and I'm afraid it might be even worse than that.
A world built of online "contacts" rather than real life relationships is a shallow one at best. So 10,000 people watched my video, and 1000 of them became my friends. How many of those will console me when I lose a parent? And if they won't - then why am I spending time on them?
One justification is that it's the "whole world." In other words, it's important. Maybe it doesn't mean anything - but it's "very important".
I just hope a whole generation of people (myself included) don't wake up one day to discover that we have no real social ties, no firm bedrock on which to anchor identities and lives in the real world.
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People get their circle of friends and associates, and that becomes their whole world, which in turn becomes the whole world.
You're right - and I'm afraid it might be even worse than that.
A world built of online "contacts" rather than real life relationships is a shallow one at best. So 10,000 people watched my video, and 1000 of them became my friends. How many of those will console me when I lose a parent? And if they won't - then why am I spending time on them?
One justification is that it's the "whole world." In other words, it's important. Maybe it doesn't mean anything - but it's "very important".
I just hope a whole generation of people (myself included) don't wake up one day to discover that we have no real social ties, no firm bedrock on which to anchor identities and lives in the real world.