01-11-2018, 12:01 AM
"This is the internet. Anyone can be whoever or whatever they want to be."
Sorry to hop into your conversation, but this quote might be THE most blatant falsehood ever. If you create an alternative internet persona with, let´s say, "a massive 15 inch cock", your cock won´t grow and shutting off the computer will still leave you sitting there with a ridiculously tiny pecker. On the internet, you can PRETEND to be whatever you want, but that won´t affect reality in the slightest. Virtual space is NOT equal to physical reality and fantasies won´t become more true just because someone mistakes his virtual persona for his real one. I´d even say that exactly this idea of "creating your persona" in the internet is one important factor why the world today is as it is, with lies replacing truths, with "alternative facts" and the complete loss of a "coordinate system". This proverbial "reinvent yourself on the internet" to me is one of the biggest lies the 21st century has offered so far. I´m not generalising here though...the internet is perfect to communicate with others, but the internet is total shit when it comes to present reliable insight into another one´s real self...you never know whether the guy on the other end of the line is completely bullshitting you (and himself, too...in quite many cases IMHO) or actually "real" in a sense that his online persona rather reflects his real self . The net actually is a really unhealthy possibility for many to amplify their fantasies uncontradicted and unchallenged by reality in echo chambers and filter bubbles. You can NOT be whatever you want to be, but you surely find lots of supportive elements in the net regarding the lies some tell themselves about themselves.
Sorry for the off topic, but I felt the need to react to that. Fantasies won´t become real just because the fantasizer builds up a dilligent , but still totally wrong alternate persona on the net. Biggest falsehood that shockingly seldom gets challenged by the generation "@"...
