Today - Bridging the Gap

The internet was meant to bridge a gap between the knowledge and the not so knowledgable.

Social media was meant to bridge a gap in human interaction.

Both have driven us forward as a society, but also ripped apart self and sense.

Up to social media, we had to navigate the relationships we have on a daily basis.  Normally, from point A to point B; father, mother, children, neighbor, spouse, friend, and possibly foe.  But all we could normally see smell and touch.

The phone got us close.

TV, a little closer.

Internet, closing in on too close for comfort.

And finally, social media.

Both our gifts and curses, in all technology mediums.

But as we have attempted to bridge gaps in human interaction, we've removed other necessary emotions and interactions, to be so facial that, we all can live in our silos as the thought of community and society degrades around us.

I joined TheFacebook as one of the first universities, well before what we know as Facebook.

I still buy the Koolaid.

But that doesn't mean the system around us isn't broken, just because we continue to consume.

Our interactions as humans will continue down this path until we decide as individuals, in a society thats stripped of individualism, to take a stand against voicing our every opinion and creating opposition at every turn.

To me that says Civil War.

And you may say wrong.  Never.

Look outside as our lives are destroyed by information, mis-information, disease, guns.

Or don't.

And keep living our day to days seperate and divided, while faking relationships on platforms meant to economize You.

I know I dont know how to push stop.

But I'm beginning to see we're the problem; the lack of society, by any group.  Those that shun to those that are so accepting that there's a clash of opinions that we have been taught and engineered to fight for.

Instead of fighting for us, for the survival our our bodies, the surivial of our souls, the survival of community and sense and purpose.

As we continue to cut these interactions for the many interactions we may superficially run into within the infinite walls of the internet, these new waters are not those that we have beem built to withstand, evolutionarily or as God-fearing individuals, or not so God-fearing.

Emotion.

Fear.

Discourse.

These will all come to you, no matter the side of the fence.

We don't need the elevated sense of disillusion brought on by social media.

But maybe, it is a societal thing, and we are in the middle of the end of America leading the way.

The community and sense of country felt from 9/11 is far from 20 years ago, and it was our last gathering as Americans to fight against a common good, for our fellow man.

Our fight seems to be us, and we will watch as countries who chose to press on see a change in their course.

That may be conjecture, but there is a brokenness in the day to day that seems irreversible.

At the top of this land, and the bottom.