Boozy Rant 25: Faces, Facades and the Feigned

In general, the people you meet, the immediate acquaintances, though no usual, make the effort to intersect with our private person. The refreshing intrusion that open up a space for actual relationships, that is, opposed to the very day virtual and agreeable textual of our interactions. So it always nice to have that instance of engagement. This holds true too in the supposed virtual spaces in the internet.

Of course, it’s not completely the same in the quality of experience but this sort of talking, communication more than makes up for that with sheer quantity and expense in the infrastructure of the whole of the internet. When once one would have had to physically make the trip abroad for a simple thing like talking to a person, now we are connected over great measures of space. It is a definite win, even if the danger of disingenuous character and, perhaps, a loss of intimacy, the record stands in favour of the advances we’ve made.

Though, at sometimes, you will wish to be closer to a person, for friendship, for love, for a straight talk even. It’s then that you see something of a new kind of distance, created mostly by the complaisance and ease our technologies might encourage. We can argue over a span of network, troll, and be vicious, malicious with our words. A measure of indifference is there too, accelerating the whole thing.

It’s no surprise since the first instance of interaction is with an avatar, an extension that is either an amplification or exaggeration of a person’s character, the good and the bad, often with a filter or pause. People are free to pretend or decorate their person to their heart’s content.

So even though then as we might have made a great lip and there is a vindication, the loss, distortion, lying, embroidering is very real still. Maybe the most terrifying part is, should we take pause and have a look behind the compulsion of activity, we might find there is nothing there anymore.

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