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Technology can be used to create larger group experiences like reddit’s r/place experiment. But it also destroys group experiences, e.g. chatting about the latest episode of Friends.
Tech’s ability to disrupt the synchronization of time is a big one in particular. Asynchronicity prevents shared experiences.
The larger the group the more difficult it is to craft a shared experience. Tech can connect people through time and space making the mass of humanity huge.
The only shared experiences possible are literally catastrophes. There’s no other way to grow the group b/c there are no other ways of achieving group experiences.
Even a show like Game of Thrones uses a form of shock and awe to coordinate a group experience. No other emotion has the spreading power to hold such a large group together.
Our ability to grow as individuals has reached well beyond any one person’s ability to achieve. The cost is our ability to grow as a group, family, country, species, etc...
The only experiences that hold us together are negative experiences. Actions that avoid or destroy negative experiences become the same actions that destroy group belonging.
That’s the problem with a boundary oriented stance towards life. You become so concerned with protecting, keeping out and keeping up that you forget to feed the fire you were protecting.
Standing there in the finest suit of armor and wielding the finest sword you wonder why it’s so cold and so dark. After all, you did everything right.
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