There is something called “being chronically online” where people almost see themselves as the main character in some big game - life isn’t about other people, it’s about watching people - and they attempt to exempt themselves from criticism, live through others parasocially, and throw stones in the online arena.

We are merely a moment in the Milky Way Galaxy, but we forget that. As Aldos Huxley writes in The Doors of Perception -

“To be enlightened is to be aware, always, of total reality in its immanent otherness - to be aware of it and yet remain in a condition to survive as an animal. Our goal is to discover that we have always been where we ought to

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Neil Hilborn once said “Isolation is not safety, it is death. If no one knows you’re alive, you aren’t... I’m not saying you’ll find the meaning of life in other people. I’m saying other people are the life to which you provide the meaning to.”

The laziest way to create meaning in your life is to find an enemy.

A lot of what we do ties back to language. Communication can be physical, verbal, visual, written, etc and we engage in it constantly. Language is the foundation of how we interact with each other, especially in an online world.

And a very long time ago, in our caveman era, we developed these linguistic abilities for the first time. This came at... See more

there is also a world where we fall into the trap that TS Eliot describes “where is the life we have lost in living? where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? where is the knowledge we have lost in information?”

Goethe said once “if we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming”.

"If a monkey hoarded more bananas than it could eat, while most of the other monkeys starved, scientists would study that monkey to figure out what the heck was wrong with it. When humans do it, we put them on the cover of Forbes” as Nathalie Robin said.

AI is just in the beginning stages. But of course, there are worries about human complacency - no one has the patience for creativity anymore. We consume the Marvel Cinematic Universe and reality dating shows and that arguably creates a cultural void rather than cultural landscape.