We've evolved to express and perceive our lives around simulacra
simulacrum
/ˌsɪmjʊˈleɪkrəm/
noun
plural noun: simulacra
an image or representation of someone or something
Think about it - so much of everything we see, hear, use, learn, even express, is in a form of symbols for the original thing.
People relate real life to movie clips, express feelings with an artists song, use memes for thoughts, bitmojis, avatars, ai flitered versions of a selfie....for visual identifiers. We eat food that is processed to look like or minutely is derived from real food - but isn't anymore.
....it goes on and on and on.
Plastic clothes, plastic cars, plastic food, plastic people.
Forget the spiritual woo woo for a bit.
Is all THIS a simulation we've created?
Have we developed society SO MUCH that we've become abstracted from the real?
We dont make our own food
We don't grow it, tend it.
Our clothes arent ours - we just bought them.
Our jobs are usually just what we can find that secure an income. They aren't our inherit passion.
We live where we can afford.
And if we can afford a lot, we often choose something way beyond our own ability to construct - and that someone else has built. Its not something that truly relfects us, but we pretend that it does
How much of our lives are really 'us'?
In a way - we ARE living in a simualtion.
SW in itself, is a simulation.
We buy stuff, we type stuff, we read stuff and watch stuff - how much of that is truly real to ourselves?
I paint my face with makeup to obscure my real face underneath.
I wear clothes that arent mine.
I rent someone elses house
I drive a car that i have little idea how it functions, and i work a job i never once dreamed i actually hopef to have.
Is this reality......or is it just a simulation ive slipped into coz its convenient, expexted and essential to function in developed society?
Forget the matrix, we're already there.
We all desperately want to feel real, yet how much of our lives are truly fake?....or just a representation of what we hope and want us to be previewed as?
The simulacra of our lives have become the reality we see to be true.
/ˌsɪmjʊˈleɪkrəm/
noun
plural noun: simulacra
an image or representation of someone or something
Think about it - so much of everything we see, hear, use, learn, even express, is in a form of symbols for the original thing.
People relate real life to movie clips, express feelings with an artists song, use memes for thoughts, bitmojis, avatars, ai flitered versions of a selfie....for visual identifiers. We eat food that is processed to look like or minutely is derived from real food - but isn't anymore.
....it goes on and on and on.
Plastic clothes, plastic cars, plastic food, plastic people.
Forget the spiritual woo woo for a bit.
Is all THIS a simulation we've created?
Have we developed society SO MUCH that we've become abstracted from the real?
We dont make our own food
We don't grow it, tend it.
Our clothes arent ours - we just bought them.
Our jobs are usually just what we can find that secure an income. They aren't our inherit passion.
We live where we can afford.
And if we can afford a lot, we often choose something way beyond our own ability to construct - and that someone else has built. Its not something that truly relfects us, but we pretend that it does
How much of our lives are really 'us'?
In a way - we ARE living in a simualtion.
SW in itself, is a simulation.
We buy stuff, we type stuff, we read stuff and watch stuff - how much of that is truly real to ourselves?
I paint my face with makeup to obscure my real face underneath.
I wear clothes that arent mine.
I rent someone elses house
I drive a car that i have little idea how it functions, and i work a job i never once dreamed i actually hopef to have.
Is this reality......or is it just a simulation ive slipped into coz its convenient, expexted and essential to function in developed society?
Forget the matrix, we're already there.
We all desperately want to feel real, yet how much of our lives are truly fake?....or just a representation of what we hope and want us to be previewed as?
The simulacra of our lives have become the reality we see to be true.
