identity
The more you live through screens, the more you’re living in a narrow bandwidth, an abstract world that’s increasingly artificial.
“As technology continues to expand, it seems likely that machines will increasingly push the limits of human creativity and in doing so will come up with entirely new domains of art whose novelty and beauty cannot be foreseen.” ― Aung San Suu Kyi
“Social Media functions as a developed mirror in its own right. A mirror doesn’t show the copy of a model exactly, through the appearance in the mirror a right hand becomes the left. The subject is also both here and somewhere else, and at the same time everywhere, being perceived from an uncertain distance in a complex depth. ― Alan W. Watts
“Every day, you and I and millions of people routinely respond to a stimulus and click and go without understanding what we’re getting ourselves into.” — Robert M. Pirsig
They would like to gaze at an untruthful mirror representing all as beautiful and see themselves in happiness . For them the mirror has not yet turned to a reflexive device to stimulate inward looking, and is solely a device intermediating the purposes of eradicating worries of external appearance . They do not look at the mirror, the mirror looks at them. ― Koso Joyo Daishi