I was reading something today and was reminded of my last conversation with JM. About how people become "pervs" online...but it's really that they are just seeking some form of human connection...you know?
So what I'm thinking is isn't it weird how such feelings of loneliness can only be expressed online on anon chats because if you did it in real life you'd be thought of as dependant and weak? So you have to hide your vulnerability. Amazing how this idea of self-sufficiency finds place in our construction of the individual when actually it is quite impossible to survive in isolation without the opinions of others influencing us--so much so that when others have no effect on us- we say we feel a disconnect and unable to relate to anyone and it's not a nice feeling or a feeling which by itself we would want to sustain. Yet we believe that it is wrong for us as individual with free will to be influenced or affected by others or their ideas. Hence we are not allowed to admit our need for human connection so obviously. Human connection is not supposed to be an essential for the existence of a person as human. He might even be human in isolation as long as he is governed by reason and has free will. Yet this construction of the individual surely must be missing something very important because even while people are supposed to feel satisfied and human with only the faculties of reason and free will- they don't. They do want that human connection- they want to be influenced and shaped. And none of them wants to be god- i.e. something which only influences but isn't influenced himself.
However, since they cannot seek all of this in the open with the modern conception of the individual- because seeking it is losing your dignity- letting your will be affected- preventing it from being free, and thus losing your suppsed "human" character, they are left to seek recourse in online anon chats. What do you think?
