Lost in the digital Colosseum

The internet is the world’s grandest stage. Literally any person can perform their ‘content’ as if it’s the Colosseum.

But does the most interesting and educational content get found? More unlikely than not, as what rules the rest is entertainment. Whoever says the most outlandish or offensive thing wins.

As much as we think we can control the quality of conversation, human-generated memes prevail. It’s the unpredictability of obviousness, a strategy so manufactured that meaningful stuff gets drowned out.

We never finish what we started because screen culture demands the next obsessive thing. That pervasive glare even has us smiling in bed with stressed fingers after dark.

Has man become suspended in self-created webs of insignificance? Yes, in the dialect of those who consider themselves most alive.