initiate:banterWe need to engage more with constant_escape, it's getting tragic.
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I admit, I am pretty theory-thirsty. I forget to wind it down sometimes. That said, I (try to) welcome all engagement.
maybe it shouldn't be a hard border, but there are very real differences that have very real effects on psyche
like those pathological instagram girls who need constant social validation. something's gone awry there and it has to do with internet and self, but maybe the theory could use some work
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I admit, I am pretty theory-thirsty. I forget to wind it down sometimes. That said, I (try to) welcome all engagement.
the internet is an environment which conditions behviour and experience like any other
Aren't you big on McLuhan? Wouldn't he sneer at that?
It is strange, even melancholy, that I will never meet any of you IRL.
Your identities ARE your words to me.
And I find both wanting.
i dont think we are authentic humans outside of this box and inhuman inside it. i dont i dont
I thought you two were hanging out irl.
Well what does authentic mean? Just because there is no fixed center, no inner core, doesn't mean it's not authentic to me.
i need to go back and re-read what youve written then maybe. are you having a drink? what are you drinking? corpsey i reckon is having a drink. hes all happy and carefree.
Partly it’s about knowing too much isn’t it. the same thing that makes many actors feel insincere in real life. It’s about getting enough (too much) feedback from media, learning to anticipate the audience reaction, play it. And over time even spontaneous and impulsive reaction can be managed too
Could the online/offline interfacing be thought of as a sort of proxy engagement? In any case mediated by lenses we aren't well equipped to see through.
Do we just get a lower resolution image of the psyche on the other end, a resolution lower than we would were we interfacing directly? Or is it altogether distorted? I mean I think we can all agree that personality seeps through our avatars/accounts, even if that is just because we project personality onto things.
And yeah I don't necessarily see online/offline as a hard distinction either.