We are Others

“For me to be at ease, I must have open space […] I must have the freedom of my space.”

To have not reflected upon that which has turned our lives into a machinery results in us becoming more enveloped in this materialistic spiral of self-treason and lies. Modern man, that much used idiom, fights an endless struggle against the gadgets which defines our actions; we have tried to externalize our abilities in the mechanisms. These mechanisms, however, are pivotal materialistic icons of our civilization. Internet, the technology which was once thought to enrich our social relations has in reality turned out to be an evolution of the social inequalities of our time.

Modern technology has in itself created a bureaucratized hierarchical system that has come to define modern interrelations between man. When yet unrealized, the potentialities of our relatively new communicational capabilities seemed to stand ground in the battle against social injustice; in a world where everyone has a voice and all of us are able to fully express ourselves in a neutral space, man becomes free. Man would no longer be bound and judged according to our economical status or social situation. All are free.

Internet, that interstitial space of contemporary reality, has in itself become entangled in the bureaucratizing modern civilization. It is no longer the exception to the rule but a further evolution of the social strata that have always been part of human coexistence; it has succumbed to the prefabricated trifles and depersonalized space of fruitless communication. All of us have become the voyeurs of our lives, we’re struggling the same battle only on another battlefield, where we are judged by the faces we put on. On this battlefield of social relations all our decisions are in the hands of the endless homeostatic mechanism according to which the exchange of deference of humiliation is the name of the game. Isolation succumbs us and in the density of the crowds we find that emptiness overcomes us.