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end of a universe
2003-12-02
Meet me in outer Space;
we could spend the night,
watch the earth come up.
I've grown tired of that place,
won't you come with me?
We could start again...
-- Stellar, Incubus
I really don't care how the internet begun, what was its function, and to whom does it cater to. I do not care if this layout, this text, or the actions created with Java and stuff actually are dots of electric impulses. So what if it's as elementary, and as intangible as that - as if it's the modern trompe l'oeil?
I don't know about you guys, but the internet allowed us to escape the prissy world and to create our own small, absurd universes - our presence in e-mails, blogs, websites, and (recently) Friendster networks. In this cluster of microcosm universes we control our identities, we establish our existence, however different it is in the real, limited world.
People would say that most of the time, the conscious alter ego created online would more or less resemble the actual being in some aspects. Some assume that the online alter ego is the personality one wants - much like this society of Daffy Ducks wanting to be Bugs Bunny. In extreme situations, the ego would either a) inhibit the real person entirely, or b) inhibit the alter ego entirely (much like schizophrenia).
Anyway.
No matter how insane and unsure the creator would be, she will still create a universe. People would be drawn into the universe, they will play parts of its every aspect. They will be more and more attached to it, and the creator will love them. With the love comes the responsibility, you know, that somethng she had escaped by making this universe. What happened to the purpose? Was there any purpose?
And what if the real world - or in that case, the real person - in some ways alter the makeshift universe?
Is the universe supposed to end because it can? Could you justify that?
I'm not making any sense, am I?
-- to Jodeck, or the guy I know whose online alias was Jodeck
unpretty beside her - 2000-02-10
high school survey - 2000-02-10
holiday's over - 2004-01-07
goodbye to the sun - 2004-01-21
pasko! paksiw! - 2003-12-14
written by andreavenge + catc