On Authentic Human Connection

On Authentic Human Connection:

The internet has been around for decades and we have witnessed it develop to its full potential. Connecting billions of people, and giving us complete access to everything the heart desires while simultaneously alienating our entire species from each other. The reasons for this are many partly due to our capitalist society also innate human desire and information overload.

In recent weeks with my heightened popularity among people on the internet, I have witnessed my self absorbed desire to see larger like count numbers and hearts on my stories grow. The question thus arises to what extent do I sacrifice my own identity in the name of a bigger like count? And what must I do to see that like count?

Truth is, I have sacrificed a good bit of my identity to satisfy the innate desire for a dopamine rush through human acceptance, and while it does fill that appetite, the void of emptiness and hollowness remains. By being a businessman or media star you are selling your soul to be a puppet to human pyschology and desire, i.e telling people what they want to hear.

I have 890 friends, but at the same time I have no friends. How many of them do I speak to regulary? Do we connect on a personal level? Is the time devotion equal? All the answers to those questions are deeply scary to think about.

Every time you see the smile of someone on their yacht, surrounded by people and living this apparent on the surface life of luxury, the question must be raised is the yacht a rental, are the “friends” really friends and is the smile genuine.

Genuine friends are rare and become more and more infrequent as the internet through its social media, dating apps and information makes us all desire something more or better. We do not realize that “better” is subjective and may not really exist, we unknowingly lost true happiness and live a lie.

The art of friendships and relationships is something that is becoming more automated, less authentic and more a matter of pure sexual and financial appeal. Our capitalist system and innately part of ourselves have a tendency to dwell and breathe self-constructed misery.

Human power comes from knowledge and the ability to change, our tendency to sway to less authentic human connection is one that is becoming more discussed as mental health becomes a more serious problem. The question then is, do we have what it takes to change the way we view human connection?