2021-09-26 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Just spent a couple of weeks in an altered state. I was in another country, with people I don't hang out with and with different access to the usual information channels. It was in some ways a reminder of the past. No ubiqutious internet, not even tv in the private spaces, people around with real world problems. It's such a big deal to even watch the news with other people watching and commenting at the same time in the same physical space. Now back in the hyperconnected bubbleworld. The unreal and the fractured. The information stream has its pull. The overlapping invisible world has its demanding precense in my psychology. The social has been transferred into that space, creating the gravity between the spaces. The real world is made more lonely by the transfer. It becomes less interactive as the social is sucked out of it. I feel like a ghost. It's really quite trippy. ------------------------------------------------------------------