“I had expected that the time away [from the internet] would allow to
forget about online sharing and all that, but instead it brought out
how much it had been lurking int he background, shaping my social self
and the ways I’ve come to stabilize it and even recognize its
existence. Contra Thoreau, retreating into nature, instead of bringing
me back to myself, made me feel like less of a self and a bit more
like one of the many undifferentiated bison one encounters out there.”
…
“All of this is to say that I think that the internet has suddenly
brought us a much denser experience of interpersonal relationships and
sociality that forces us to reshape the way we think of ourselves, as
being potentially social at basically all times. We are perpetually
present everywhere, with a ubiquity wireless connectivity supplies.
The result of this thick intimacy, this perpetual sociality, is that
we may have much more difficulty achieving harmony with the natural
world, where presence is momentary and fragile, and sociality is
limited to the distance our voices can travel.”
On disconnectedness: Alone in the woods (via Mike)
 (via fascinated)

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