Facebook Fiends

As I sit here typing this article on my macbook, I’m a member to all top websites — facebook, google, youtube, myspace, yahoo. I’m surrounded by a few hard drives amounting to over 2 tbs of space (that’s a lot!), an iPhone, digital cameras, ipod, Internet phones, Flip cams, and all sorts of wires entangling my feet. I’m fucking surrounded by technology. I’m swimming in a sea of facebook friends, emails, youtube comments, and all sorts of requests, pokes, pings, and notifications. I’m surprised that I’m not sweating lead. Jesus, how did I get in so deep? Since the age of 12 I’ve been digital. And now there’s almost no going back. Or is there?

I’m scared. As much as I love technology and respect what it can do and has done for me, I’m scared. I’m of the computer age, starting with the sluggish dial-ups of AOL to the mega high-speed cables of instant Internet on tap, 24/7/365. God damn, things are changing? So fast. It’s like a blur.

Why am I scared?

I’m scared because I’m aware. I’m aware of what’s happening to the human spirit as it gets strangled by the high speeds of technology. I’m scared when I see people posting images of their mom’s BMW on facebook to make them look and feel rich when deep down inside they’re alone, crying, and yearning for something real. I’m scared when people spend 10 hours tethered to their devices as if they depended on them for life support. I’m scared when my mom texts me while we’re in the same house. I’m scared at the disproportionate rate of technological advancement which evermore builds our dependence on outside forces while inside forces get weaker and weaker.

If the rate of spiritual evolution remained ahead of the digital evolution, then I wouldn’t be scared. But this isn’t the case, sadly. We’re drowning in technology and drifting further and further away from reality and we don’t even know it. The mind is becoming duller and duller with each hour spent on facebook showing off our new clothing or makeup or cars or money or jazzy new toys or whatever new shit we’ve purchased to make ourselves feel better and bigger and to inflate the bubbles we’re trapped in. Our intelligence is flushed deeper and deeper down the drain as we spend hours gossiping on our iPhones and texting utter bullshit between friends. Text – Text – Text – Text – Text – Text. We’re caught in a text-a-thon of absolute banter, gossip, and nonsense.

Can’t we see what’s happening to the human potential?

We are ever widening the gap between ourselves and real human connections. We’re drifting further and further away from the Source and drawing nearer and nearer to everything that’s false, dead, and plastic. We’re drones in a world that’s becoming more and more subservient to the computer. Ha, with all our intelligence we actually think that we’re the masters of the computer, but each day I see a different story. The story of man who spent a lot of time and money creating technology to serve us, but eventually came to own us. Can we see this happening, people? Are we aware that we are so deeply entrenched in technology that we are no longer human, but texting, facebooking, myspacing robots? Is this clear?

Unfortunately, I don’t think that we are seeing what’s really happening. Technology is like the human mind: it’s absolutely amazing when under the full control of the operator. We can’t even control our own minds and we think we can now control technology. We’re doing the wrong sort of work here. We’re investing our time in all the wrong things. Investigating the digital world and dislocating from the natural one. We’re trying to improve a physical world without first perfecting an inner-world. We spend 100x more money, time, and effort making advancements in technology and friends on facebook than sitting in silence and simply observing what’s going on inside ourselves. And this is what makes this whole thing so scary. A digital dream we can’t wakeup from.

We’re all living in a disorderly world we’re calling orderly. We think that we’ve harmonized with these technological advances but in fact are more out of tune than ever. My friends, these tech advances and online pursuits and texting all night and speaking all day on our cells are not really advancements at all, but the de-evolution of the Mind, Body, and Spirit. Look at me, just as stuck in this megabyte quicksand as anyone else. And I’m happy that about. I’m happy that I’m aware that I’m actually in danger of losing my heart and all the things that really matter in this world. Yes, I say that I am happy and so damn grateful for this awareness.

For not until you feel the pain of what’s really going on, you’ll never know that you’re stuck in a technological world of hell and backwardness disguised as heaven and advancement.

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