The End Of The Internet
We all hold on to things. Some of these things feel like life or death to us. Let’s be honest.
The internet is one of these things. We do everything on it: watch, share, listen, read…
Without the internet, we’d be losing out on so much of our experience.
But with this love of the internet comes our attachment to it.
When you’re attached to something, you feel like you can’t live without it.
We can live without the internet, but we really don’t want to.
Attached is a BIG word. But when have you gone more than a few days without it?
Sounds like a drug..
And what happens when a drug addict loses access to their drug supply?
Withdrawal ensues.
Withdrawal is a feeling of dread that pushes us to want more of the thing we are lacking. It’s unhealthy.
The case of the Internet is that it’s not only something we might be dependent on, we’re dependent on it as a group — Humanity.
So it’s easy to imagine that the worse thing protecting us from this feeling of withdrawal, that keeps us coming back to the Internet, is its loss.
If we lose the Internet, it may cause the worse thing ever. This would be comparable to the Apocalypse.
This is not because it would cause terror, drama or chaos… But because of the feeling of withdrawal from this new lack of Internet would hurt really bad.
Imagine billions of people all feeling terrible because they can’t listen to the new Miley Cyrus song. And Miley on her end trying to get people together to hear her sing without Youtube.
This is something to think about.
