TwoCents | DEMI GODS AND THE FAME MONSTER

How do I enter this terrain with a deftness and alacrity that would not offend the gods mildly? Hahahaha, I don't even know why I began my speech like that but let us see how this particular journey evolves.Want to find out? Keep reading I was listening to Jon Bellion's "The Internet" and let me tell you, everytime I listen to it, I have a thousand pages in my head about how true his message is. The advent of the internet made us all famous and now our demigod status has reached an all time high. But are we even aware of our status or we just have remained numb, instead wanting more? I say this because we allow the illusion of something with "no real estate in the real world" as Bellion puts it to keep us in chains and disbelief of ourselves. How, you may ask? I saw a post three weeks ago where someone said we get sad when we have "just" 100 or 50 followers on the net, but imagine if 100 people or fifty people said they liked you or were rooting for you in real life, that would be an esteem boost. Yet, we allow a supposedly small amount of followers determine our self-worth. Ironic!!!! Life really became dangerous when we all became famous, because the troll or cancel culture is the bedrock of internet terrorism. Everyone is a saint in this virtual world of ours and as soon as someone makes a mistake, here comes the horns and pitchforks to slaughter and maimWhere is the human element of allowing people make mistakes and learn from them?I think it's not exactly human but a spiritual leaning because if you observe, people tend to talk about being "human" mostly when they have committed a crime or hurt you.Well this was already existent in real life so you could say "art imitating life" or maybe a semblance of it. What about people pretending to have something or be something just "for the gram"? Bellion's line that says "don't need the book, just need you to think I read it......" paints this picture for us. The "fake life" agenda that pervaded the internet has driven most to really dangerous places. A boy sees one person flashing wads of cash and dreams of that spectacular lifestyle. Unknown to him, that person is a fraudster or is posing in someone's house. Or is it a girl seeing another female dressed in expensive attire with glowing skin and a flamboyant life, not knowing she is eating excreta to get that paper or is being sponsored by a sugar daddy. Of course we know it's not everyone who does this that is engaged in such acts. But let us be real, if you got it like you do, would you feel the need to want to impress me? Or is it really an esteem problem, you need to feel admired or worshipped and keeping that attention requires you doing this? Then when it goes awry, you are slaughtered on the virtual cross and people move on to the next victim. As Bellion puts it, "no one cares if you are happy, just as long as they think you are" and he didn't tell one lie. And people are being destroyed everyday due to traumatic ideals they pick up on the space, because attention in the real world is lacking or they have suddenly become attached to this perception of friends that do not need to be in the room with you? Are we slowly losing the essence of human interaction? Are we okay with the constant gender Wars and hurt people roaming the virtual street looking for the next patsy? Of course it has its advantages and we have seen it in YouTube lessons, creators, virtual workshops and so many more. But which is taking the lead, the good or the bad? We know when the purpose of a thing is unknown, abuse becomes inevitable, so maybe we have abused it to a degree where survival is out of the question: you are either a slave or apathetic to it. Whatever the case, it calls for some serious introspection So let's ask ourselves, are we allowing the virtual world keep us chained to some idea or are we using it the best way possible?

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