https://macskamoksha.com/2019/12/the-absurdity-of-online-community

“Online, our senses are narrowed to a scant two or so, which are then abused through over-stimulation. Our state of consciousness is similarly constricted to the narrow bandwidth that can translate to the crude medium. That a big chunk of that range can be well represented by just five emoticons is revealing AF.

I am saddened. A great percentage of the population has embraced and internalized a serious delusion. My own relationship with it is more or less delusional in different moments, but aside from that there is a cultural phenomena that I cannot avoid, even if I stopped using it myself.

Collectively, people have convinced themselves that poking at shapes and colors on screens is friendship or love or connection.

But that’s just not true.

Abstract representations are all that’s going on.”