=> 👽 sdfgeoff

How much of your lives do you spend living (or watching) someone elses?

3 years ago · 👍 kevinsan, martin, cobradile94

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=> 👽 cobradile94

As in like on video and streaming services? Not often, I’m my own person, I try not to let peer pressure or other people decide what I want to do · 3 years ago

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i have 2 Kids...🤣🤣🤣 · 3 years ago

=> 👽 marginalia

My reply became too long so I posted it here: gemini://marginalia.nu/log/15-stages-of-being.gmi · 3 years ago

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=> 👽 sdfgeoff

I think humans always spend some time in imaginary worlds, or worlds of others. It is what allows creativity and co-operation.

Those worlds can be shared by stories around a campfire, distributed on paper, viewed on a screen or injected by neural implants. I suspect that people have changed less than we think with this new technoogy thing. We've always had these problems - just in a different way.

The thing that prompted this particular thought is that the family I'm currently boarding with spend every single evening watching TV dramas. They spend so much of their life watching other peoples imaginary lives it seems to me they have little of their own.

Step away from the campfire.... · 3 years ago

=> 👽 kevinsan

I don't know if you're asking rhetorically. That strikes me as quite a profound question. I was recently pondering what my worldview might have been like had I been alive in 1921. Or had I experienced the mass-media boom post WW2, would the world have looked as insane to me as the Facetwitokagrams world looks now? · 3 years ago