Antisocial, old fashioned or wise?
René Descartes
For a couple of years now I've been having a feeling of repulsion for/with the crowds, and I am not referring simply to a traffic jam, to a shopping mall full of people that seem to move like ants, all with their low brows looking the new idiot box, (that's right, the cell phone is the new idiot box of contemporary generations.)
I refer to everything that entails a social outlet, that position in front of others where it is tried in a primitive way to show presence and be part of a herd. I do not want to sound negative about it but I must clarify that few are my feelings of similarity with the rest, and if something have been always bolder me is to belong for the simple reason to be accepted by others.
As I express in the title of this article, I did not know how to qualify, if I am an antisocial, an antiquated or simply a wise person in a world of cyberzombies. I find it difficult to understand the euphoria of going to a public space to stand like a figurine waiting to be seen by another group of zombies with whom to try to interact, or not. I can not understand how people are losing in that empty and hostile world where the only thing that matters is your brand, your clothes, your hair, your mobile phone, and how cool you are that day, to see people throwing their lives into Facebook, Instagram and millions of solitary talks in front of a screen that consumes us.
Unfortunately we have left aside the humanism, the fact of thinking and being for the other person, it is almost impossible to establish a chat with a person without looking at his mobile phone every five minutes, and I know it because I used to be like that, no one is free from guilt within this modern lifestyle, however I have appreciated that only a few are able to see the social and moral damage that is causing this wave of stupidity.
All my relationships have shrunk as far as strength is concerned, I no longer find real people, people to speak to, read, someone who comments on a new book, someone who is really willing to connect and not just stays there like a stone.
I have learned to live alone, not to tolerate what does not interest me in my life, I have learned to eliminate people who do not accept a life different from the fashionable life, I've been trying to get away from everything that can be toxic a moment bringing with it the waves of modernization. And as if this were not enough, I tried to alienate myself inside a room trying to have as little contact with people as possible, I realized that I do not need anyone to pretend to have a link that does not exist, I choose to be selfish and save my soul, put my ideals and principles ahead, and in the future who knows, maybe I can isolate myself completely from an empty and brainless society.