The Dangers of The Internet:
- addiction - checking phones ahead of interpersonal communication
- we know too much and understand too little
- privacy is under threat
- online crime is out of control
- unrivalled challenges on how to interact with our partners, keep our critical faculties alive, stop thinking that the answers always lie 'out there', remain emotionally connected to real life people, make discoveries that come when we are bored and letting our mind lie fallow
The Problem with our Phones:
- used to keep our own selves at bay
- incapable of sitting alone with our thoughts
- self-avoidance
- consult phones rather than ourselves
- we must spend time with our worries rather than the anxiety they create
- 'remember you are made of dust and will be dust again'
Why We Feel Lonely and Odd
- know ourselves from the inside, know others from what they chose to or are able to tell us - limited, edited - like how we present ourselves on social media
- knowing people through public pronouncments (idea of 'perfect lives')
- physiological asymmetry - think of ourselves as more peculiar and shameful than others
- our emotions and experiences are more intense, we know alot more about who we are
- results in loneliness and shyness, feeling inherintly different to everyone else
- easily intimidated by people we assume cannot share in our vulnerabilities
- feel like imposters in positions of power
- solutions lie in art and love
- art allows for accurate portrayls of the inner lives of strangers
- love allows for occassional deeply precious sense of security - learn about yours and other vulnerabilities
- we must presume that everyone is closer to what we are, than they are to resemble the personas they show to the world
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