So do you think we'll all get fed up of this internet game before too long, having used it to gain a certain perspective and re-learn what makes real life so good? I do. Not that I think the net or computers will disappear off the face of the earth, not at all.
I would like to agree with Jackwit and say that eventually the internet will fall apart and people will return to their real lives out of necessity of realizing what life is all about, but I just don't think its convenient enough. I'm seriously surprised we still use cellular towers for phones. Its all evolving to fast for mankind to keep up. I think dependence on the internet to express oneself is a phase that most inhabitants of developed countries will go through. I feel at this stage in my life that I may have to re-learn how to communicate and stop from shutting down or expiring into a dark hole to collect my thoughts and true wants out of life. I want to travel and meet people but it seems much more difficult than it ought to be. Rejection online is much more subtle than it is in real life. Its a large shield and without it I'm vulnerable. In this I think that we are not exhibitionists for submitting ourselves to the online realm because of the wall that guards us from the reality of rejection. That's an essential part of being an exhibitionist; you are free from succumbing to the fear of rejection. Here it just plain isn't there...
"Simulacra and Science Fiction", Science Fiction Studies, 1991. Argues that speculative lit is the only literature of the hyperreal present. A sentiment that fits well into the more recent realm of Pantheistic Solipsism that is currently running rampant through the lit world.
Available thanks to the wonders of modern hyperreal limiting technology right here
I don't know why but it's an endless image that sends me spiralling into daydream!
I will check out that book on form though, I will read it with the reckless reward of an ignorant reading a sacred text for the first time and totally misunderstanding it
maybe not ignorant but definitly a bull in a china shop that thrives on instinct and balls all else! Or at least my ego would like to think so if he wasn't such a twat
I've just read your story in the Filthy Dirty Smutty Storytime group - it was wonderful! I left a comment there too, but I thought I'd drop by and let you know how much I enjoyed it. I enjoyed both your style and your setting - sci-fi erotica appeals to the geek in me! Do you have plans to write any more?
I wish I could get you to write poetry about me....