Our unnatural condition — in the digital abyss of our own making

Digital dissonance & paradoxes of progress

“Knowledge is not for knowing: knowledge is for cutting.” — Michel Foucault

History has not yet laid bare a full accounting and register of the disruption and impact that our era’s encounter with technology and how technology, like an uncontrolled fire has wrecked havoc on the deeper core of our humanity. When said history is written, long after we are gone, those reading about this cavernous moment in time may find themselves puzzled by the apparent paradoxes of our era. They may wonder and ponder how the exponential growth of technology, which promised to bring us closer together, instead often widened the emotional and philosophical gaps between us.

They will read about our vast oceans of information that was at our fingertips and wonder how, amidst such wealth of knowledge, misinformation and disconnection flourished.

They might even marvel at our ability to communicate across the globe in an instant, yet lament the loss of deeper, more meaningful connections and human bonds of understanding.

In this historical reflection, they will likely try to understand how the very tools designed to enhance human life…