Even now, as the soil I’m standing on increasingly grips me, I find myself at night gazing at the Moon, trusting that one day I will walk upon it, feeling my feet barely touch the asphalt of the street I walk back from to your house.
The Police - Spirits In The Material World
Continuing
with The Police, I believe we are
spirits trapped in a material world: the complexity of our feelings cannot be
reduced to the simplicity of binary code. Just as beauty is not a vulgar
accumulation of pixels reproduced by artificial intelligence.
To
reject technology or the Internet would be to reject the world we live in. But,
returning to The Police, the
solution to our troubled evolution does not lie in surrendering to a colossal
artifice: it helps no one to "like"
something on social media to support a cause if you do it so your "friends" will see it, and not out
of social conscience.
Our life
is in the heart, not in the ether. We will achieve progress as individuals, not
as cyber-users.
