tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4098887240471953238.post168797211230334697..comments2024-03-20T11:47:46.829-06:00Comments on Once upon a transdimensional day...: Virtual Reality - (with Addendum, July 19, 2019)Dia Sobin (Araqinta)http://www.blogger.com/profile/03398194511342193439noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4098887240471953238.post-3560023429218723692011-08-17T10:37:37.868-06:002011-08-17T10:37:37.868-06:00P.S. Actually, I just noticed something... the &qu...P.S. Actually, I just noticed something... the "time-stamp" was set at a PST default setting, so, not only do time-stamps have no real existential meaning but they can be set to reflect an outright inaccuracy. I just changed it to EST... which is only relatively accurate, of course...Dia Sobin (Araqinta)https://www.blogger.com/profile/03398194511342193439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4098887240471953238.post-28670559746864648512011-08-17T10:09:35.221-06:002011-08-17T10:09:35.221-06:00I don't know, BG, there's a certain satisf...I don't know, BG, there's a certain satisfaction in deleting posts and comments... it's like any other creative process... some stuff just doesn't cut it, so you rip it up (or take a hammer to it). Which is, of course, the way it should be.<br /><br />Expanding the metaphor, the internet is a warped mirror and time is endowed with an eery, false, tyrannical significance... The exact time I am writing this comment, for instance, will be engraved underneath it like a date on a tombstone, but is this of any real significance?<br /><br />Anyway, thanks for your feedback... and if you find a really good hiding place, let me know! ;-)Dia Sobin (Araqinta)https://www.blogger.com/profile/03398194511342193439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4098887240471953238.post-68268423494408010872011-08-16T21:34:47.503-06:002011-08-16T21:34:47.503-06:00Superb post....and you have just declared "Th...Superb post....and you have just declared "The Emperor has NO clothes!"...now to see if the other spectators are co-joined to your perception.<br /><br />The internet is, by and large, a mirror of generalized society...the false facade is always present. The only way to ever know ANYONE (real or virtual) is via an investment in time and communication. Few are willing to make that investment -- time is fleeting and the next New Thing is five minutes down the road.<br /><br /> "It's so dreamy, oh fantasy free me.<br /> So you can't see me, no, not at all.<br /> In another dimension, with<br /> voyeuristic intention,<br /> Well secluded, I see all."<br /><br />Let's do the time warp again, eh?<br /><br />Frankly, what bothers ME is the other point you touched on -- the creative high that we wish to share....and thus, post -- has little understanding in the "Great Out There"...and when that high wears off, we squirm to think we have possibly shared too much....and delete posts. That is human nature.<br /><br />Anway...you've said it all far better than I. Applause and accolades. Now I'm going to go hide.BG Dodsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06781353558372397870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4098887240471953238.post-40856327783255993542011-08-16T21:11:57.573-06:002011-08-16T21:11:57.573-06:00... and a wonderful comment, ToB... I agree with y...... and a wonderful comment, ToB... I agree with your insight relating to creative types as well (a group which you also represent)... The act of creation is often a lonely, isolated trip... and difficult to share, though, as humans, we have this innate need to share. The internet begins to represent this "place where we can meet", but, sadly, it's all smoke and mirrors.<br /><br />I sometimes think there is a thing - a real variety of illness - I'll call "internet poisoning"... one of the symptoms is difficulty sleeping... but there's more. I don't want to discuss it because it's not a well-thought out idea... and there may be a number of factors involved. Suffice to say, I think I've had my dose for the day - but it's been nice!<br /><br />Peace out.Dia Sobin (Araqinta)https://www.blogger.com/profile/03398194511342193439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4098887240471953238.post-32842830575034223272011-08-16T19:41:05.739-06:002011-08-16T19:41:05.739-06:00Great post! I think if people from the past were a...Great post! I think if people from the past were able to jump forward in time and see us staring into these shining black boxes, they would think they had entered hell. That's the part that gets me. You *think* something's happening, but in many ways it isn't. That doesn't mean that virtual connections can't become real. But there's a bigger divide to cross than when you meet or talk to people in the original way humans always did, face to face. I think we haven't the faintest idea what that dislocation is doing to us, and won't know for several decades. Also the internet is so young, yet it seems permanent, like it's always been there. And people are addicted to it on a mass scale. All these things are bad signs. There are some good things of course that have arisen on the Web. Think of the mass of information now available to everyone, whether you have access to a specialized library or not. That's significant. But whether the outcome will be overall good in the long run remains to be seen. Very good remarks on the vulnerability of the artist online too. I think artists and all creative types are drawn to the internet like moths to the flame.LC Douglasshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04250961297714038453noreply@blogger.com