The ugly truth: Satan, social networks and security

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The creation of SocNets is just one step toward our own self-created Matrix (un)reality. The more electronic we allow our relationships to become, the less we need reality to support them. The less we need reality, the more we require electronic relationships to sustain us. Like Aragorn's ring, it seems the twin serpents might in fact devour each other in the end.

Even being almost 40, I find myself subject to the plethora of easily accessible electronic forms of communication. Maintaining a job and a family are both overtime ventures, leaving little for self or friends. And so my life too has become invaded by "Five Faves" and emails that I send to all my friends at once.

At what point does our existing society collapse, only to be replaced by a virtual one, whereby everyone can look however they wish, engage in whatever actions they choose without repercussions, and maintain employment, all without ever passing toenail through the front door?

But in these days of Avian Flu and HIV and the possible recurrence of smallpox or the Black Plague, is it truly evil that we are being flushed into the toilet bowl of electronic communication? Is it impossible there is a future by which human contact is minimized for all our sakes, and that life was we know it exists only in nostalgic pockets of virtual reality?

Posted by: throvolos   Posted on: 09/10/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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