Many of us may not even remember those quaint dolls made of cloths or
knitted in wool, a cherished childhood tradition. We had relationships
with them, but later grew out of it. Remember the weekends when we would
grab the picnic basket, sun umbrellas and head out for an intimate
weekend on the beach or woods with the family and friends.
It
was an iconic image of weekends and leisure, the sense of a vanishing
world is painfully insistent in our technology driven lives today. With
the ubiquitous Blackberry and Smartphone we embrace digital technology
to fill the void of intimacy and warmth of relationship thats has
vanished forever.
Dolls,
picnics and weekends at the beach with family and friend are passé and
even at parties – physically they are elsewhere as they tap and text on
their cell phones. Children have difficulty in differentiating the real
and authentic from the inanimate.
There is a dark possibility
that cherished cultural artifacts and traditions will disappear to a
point where, we prefer shallow relationships over actual intimacy.
Cultures and places changed beyond recognition by social media.
We have a fragile sense of self; we are becoming terrified of intimacy
and flee from the old life long gone by … and the old analogue world
being dismantled. We can never go back within the flow of time, from
which it was removed.
We turn to the digital world, mute the
sound of our hearts and emotional lives and present a false persona
online. We become that person; we get confused, disoriented going into a
grayish dark world of monitors hoping to find a digital soul mate
sooner or later. -Vinay-
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