It’s a metaphor! it can be anything that fits well, Abstract or concrete, future or past. As long as it’s “Something that pushes you out of a space you used to inhabit”, it works.

Because… That doesn’t matter, maybe?

You can download it (or read it) here

I should consider again to move to neocities… I tried to do it once, but as I already have my blog (in blogger), I thought it was unnecessary (besides I was too lazy to relearn HTML and CSS). But I think that in this day and age, it is necessary…

Exactly 👏

The next stage of evolution:

Animal -> Human -> Porn Bot -> ???

Facebook and reddit, I would say, are part of the process of taking. You are right, we never “own” Facebook, Twitter or Reddit, we had the feeling that we did, but it was a fallacy. What we did had before (for those who had it at the time and maybe still have it) were the personal pages and forums of yesteryear, which, after the rise of social networks, no longer had a “place” in the new digital space.

it’s easier than ever to create your own digital space and anybody could do it at any time

Yes, it is easier, but I don’t know if “anybody” can do it. It requires time, resources, very advanced knowledge for the average user and infinite patience. I have a mutual who is struggling to maintain a Venezuelan Mastodon server and is questioning whether to keep it up even though there is almost no one there or continue. It’s not that simple. And in essence, for the average user who knows nothing about servers, the feeling that the world is shrinking and pushing them out is very real.

On the other hand, think that “our” country is not really “ours”, but of those who have the power, who do with it what they want. And our house may not be ours if it is mortgaged or rented. Nuance, nuance, etc, etc…

(Of course, analogies should not be taken as exact).

Nah, that would be like going back to the chess board with a player that already took all your pawns, towers and Your Queen (and is blatantly cheating). It’s not taking back form the inside but from the outside. Make our own Spaces grow just as their networks grow so many years ago an overwhelm them just as they overwhelmed us.

But we are nature, part of it, therefore everything we do is natural too, I totally convince of it. My problem is that some of us act like we were something apart from nature, above even.

Emm… Could you elaborate, please? 😅

You’re so damn right! We can’t pull us apart of nature and neither everything we do!

The Apex Animal, the Uber-animal, the Sigma Animal 🗿

I know my fella Dionegenes pretty well. He was based as fuck 🔥🔥

Hey, I recognize a The Fairly OddParents reference when I see one. That’s good taste, fella 👌

Hmm, ok. Now I can see the point you where making. Thanks for elaborate.

That’s literally my mantra, and I’m waaaaay more happy since I accepted it

Good point. I’ll give you that.

Well, you have explained it as concisely and clearly as I never EVER could. Thank you.

So, what we are then?

(And, at the risk of sounding harsh, what’s with the constant duology? Why the mania of dividing everything into “this” and “that”?)

In what way we aren’t animals? (And please, don’t mention technology or civilization, that’s an easy one)