I've been calling it ANTI social media for years. Real people with real relationships are what matter. When someone tells me that they don't need our "club" anymore because they can have a "car show" on Fakebook, I'm aghast. It makes no sense to me. I'm a "boomer" who has a son of four who has "cancelled" his mother and I for over two years. He says I'm a "terrible person" and yet will not explain what his meaning of terrible is. I see cancelling as a form of "ghosting". It has to be a sickness.
Does anyone realize that the languages of the modern world construct an artificial ceilling beyond which no one will look, think, or imagine?
Honestly, most of this computing effort is put into a language, and that language dictates the substance of the electronic world, orders and channels interaction within it, and even passes judgement on what is real.
This latest piece of yours rings different from your previous efforts, as if it was written by a different hand with the same mannerisms as yours. A subtle and different language.
Part of me finds the use of the word Ghost in this electronic facsimile to be disingenuous. Ask any living person to define a Ghost, and the response is vague, meandering., yet they happily convert the word into a phenomenon of the electronic wasteland.
The popular types, with fancy production values and lots of self aggrandizing certainty, seem to prefer a world where spiritual reality for them is a distorted phrase.
I actually hear this quite often, and I wonder to myself if their electronic language includes death.
My kids, 25 yo twins went through the UK education system. They both trusted the government over their mother when I pointed out you can't make a safe and effective vaccine in 6 months. They believe me now. I copied EVERY dead sports person to them.
Another macabre story by master story teller Dr. P., this time about online shamanism and the dark web of unrequited love and rotten fame. I salute you from the Philippines, Doc! 🫡
Been there. Seen that. A work buddy of us died from liver hepatitis related to alcoholism and unhealthy gamer lifestyle in 2018. His story resembles that of Tim and has become a trope among the EA expat community. He was super obese and untidy, cracked jokes about sexpats and farangs, was heavily into conspiracy theories, MAGA and fake news, yet surprisingly he retained his job as an English teacher and was very knowledgable with computers and even wrote code. He was in his mid forties when he collapsed in his kitchen. He got the last laugh when the national newspaper reported him as a "British IT Professional" because he lived with locals and so many police showed up (not much else happening here), and they had trouble getting him out there because he was so fat, so it became newsworthy. Nobody deleted his FB page, so he is still on there, in 2024, sweating and ogling. 5/5
Sad but brilliant story, Dr. P. Tokyo Tim has my sympathy. Too many stories from the Opium East about online addictions and severe social disorders. I can't even imagine how painful dating and the job market must be for these creatures of the dark web. Liked and shared.
Sorry, comments were disabled. Turned back on. This story was originally about the Dead Internet theory, Bitcoin and Gamergate. Then I managed to make it about Generation X, Y, and Z, and Online Dating, and English teachers, and expats going broke and dying alone. How did I do that?
I've been calling it ANTI social media for years. Real people with real relationships are what matter. When someone tells me that they don't need our "club" anymore because they can have a "car show" on Fakebook, I'm aghast. It makes no sense to me. I'm a "boomer" who has a son of four who has "cancelled" his mother and I for over two years. He says I'm a "terrible person" and yet will not explain what his meaning of terrible is. I see cancelling as a form of "ghosting". It has to be a sickness.
Dr. P.,
Does anyone realize that the languages of the modern world construct an artificial ceilling beyond which no one will look, think, or imagine?
Honestly, most of this computing effort is put into a language, and that language dictates the substance of the electronic world, orders and channels interaction within it, and even passes judgement on what is real.
This latest piece of yours rings different from your previous efforts, as if it was written by a different hand with the same mannerisms as yours. A subtle and different language.
Part of me finds the use of the word Ghost in this electronic facsimile to be disingenuous. Ask any living person to define a Ghost, and the response is vague, meandering., yet they happily convert the word into a phenomenon of the electronic wasteland.
The popular types, with fancy production values and lots of self aggrandizing certainty, seem to prefer a world where spiritual reality for them is a distorted phrase.
I actually hear this quite often, and I wonder to myself if their electronic language includes death.
The interNET, a contrivance of DARPA, essential tool is has become notwithstanding.
My kids, 25 yo twins went through the UK education system. They both trusted the government over their mother when I pointed out you can't make a safe and effective vaccine in 6 months. They believe me now. I copied EVERY dead sports person to them.
Remember when people loved computers without knowing EVERYTHING the computers can do?
Next level insane.
Another macabre story by master story teller Dr. P., this time about online shamanism and the dark web of unrequited love and rotten fame. I salute you from the Philippines, Doc! 🫡
I miss chat rooms, SMS, and message boards though. The 2000s were the Golden Age of the Internet.
I got "ghosted" so many times I don't take it personal anymore. No reply means No.
Been there. Seen that. A work buddy of us died from liver hepatitis related to alcoholism and unhealthy gamer lifestyle in 2018. His story resembles that of Tim and has become a trope among the EA expat community. He was super obese and untidy, cracked jokes about sexpats and farangs, was heavily into conspiracy theories, MAGA and fake news, yet surprisingly he retained his job as an English teacher and was very knowledgable with computers and even wrote code. He was in his mid forties when he collapsed in his kitchen. He got the last laugh when the national newspaper reported him as a "British IT Professional" because he lived with locals and so many police showed up (not much else happening here), and they had trouble getting him out there because he was so fat, so it became newsworthy. Nobody deleted his FB page, so he is still on there, in 2024, sweating and ogling. 5/5
Sad but brilliant story, Dr. P. Tokyo Tim has my sympathy. Too many stories from the Opium East about online addictions and severe social disorders. I can't even imagine how painful dating and the job market must be for these creatures of the dark web. Liked and shared.
Sorry, comments were disabled. Turned back on. This story was originally about the Dead Internet theory, Bitcoin and Gamergate. Then I managed to make it about Generation X, Y, and Z, and Online Dating, and English teachers, and expats going broke and dying alone. How did I do that?