1/3/24: What Did YOU Do?

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I watched a video today of some kid breaking a record in Tetris for highest level achieved, this one. And he's just some kid, setting records and milestones. And when I watched it, sure it was fascinating on some technical level to see the game's code break, but what irked me was the question I formed: what are you doing?

The internet as a whole enjoys what is rapidly digestible and palatable. Visual art, games, streamers, trendsetters, sensationalism, drama, glamour. Emotional, artistic, and entertaining appeals that are easy or fast to consume is what the internet feasts on. It would appear that—as the separate world it is from reality, robbed of tangible things and physical existence—the opposite is not interesting to them.

The aforementioned appeals spread easily to wide audiences. But in the tangible and physical world, there are nuances of real humans, body language, social life, careers, livelihoods, survival, money, travel, etc. Constructing a theory to try to comprehend mutual and exclusive interests between the two discrete worlds, unify the goals and capabilities of both, and identify a distinct boundary between the two is to compare apples and oranges. It's not very easy or worth doing.

Don't overthink it. Your personal achievements and history and real-world actions are seldom impactful on the whole of the internet, where your own identity is never the same as reality. Between individuals however, despite the limited impact, at least there is one.