Reponse To Slow Social Media
Response to Slow Social Media
I think in time to come we will see the less attractive aspects of social media as a blip in time.
That said, until we learn what has taken us millennia to recognise in ourselves, that we cannot go on forever advancing ourselves over the interests of others, nothing will change.
Until we think and act to achieve a success that means success for everyone, nothing will change.
So the question is whether the course we are on is in fact teaching us to learn and absorb that lesson so that we see it is true.
It seems to me that there may well come a day when the majority, or a significant minority, will have become so sick of our current way of interacting that we will have a revolution of attitude and work only for mutual success. Meanwhile, we get what we deserve.
But then comes an interesting question. We know that first come the creatives and the curious, and then come the commercial interests.
So we need to invent the impossible - a shared space that does not belong to anyone - a space within which we can all interact and yet that we view from our own space. I can envision it as a hologram - it doesn’t really exist except by the input from the actors in the space.
Then we can say that we built a castle in the air, only to find that there is a castle there - something that we can only experience when we have built it.