Isolation - Faceless People
Remember the Christian ethic, ‘love thy neighbour’. I think that ethic was there for a purpose. You see to love someone you have to know them. To know a person you have to have contact with them. We have spoken many times of the need to use all our senses such as sight sound and touch to know another person.
No one person knows what another is thinking and it seems to me that when people are becoming more and more isolated from one another and linked through a machine which does not bring all senses into play in a harmonious way then the thinking of some people might be unharmonious to say the least.
The man who was jailed for eight weeks, this week, from Port Talbot had put offensive remarks on Twitter and other internet media concerning the tragic death of a teacher. How can you not feel for this woman who had her life brutally cut short doing her job, a job she appears to have done to the best of her ability for many decades.
The boy who killed her, a high achieving young man, who suddenly knifes to death a person who had taught him in front of other young people who will now be traumatized and their life never be the same again as it was.
Both of these people were spoken of as insular. Both were prolific users of the internet. Neither of them could have had any feeling whatsoever for the person who was killed. If they had they would not have performed the acts they did.
Love thy Neighbor and have compassion for your fellow man. What has happened to people that they do not adhere to these ethics? Ethics are more important to us than money. Many people cannot understand this but life is more important than money, love is more important than money or fame. It appears that infamy today is surmounting these ethics that once were the backbone of our society. Children grew up with a code of conduct they were expected to adhere to. Rules were in place and we all had to abide by those rules so that life would be harmonious for the majority of people.
It appears the internet has changed all this. We no longer adhere to anything. You can be any gender you wish, you can be genderless and people must accept this is what you want to be. So rules are out of the window, ethics are a thing of the past.
Until the use of the internet by faceless people who have no boundaries is curtailed and some rules are brought back into peoples’ lives we can expect more and more people to not know what loving their neighbor or having compassion is. They cannot feel it for they have not experienced it. They become insular so cannot learn to live with their fellow man. They live their life in the companionship of a machine which is not human and has no feelings. This is their role model and what they will become is the same as that machine, cold and heartless and it now appears perhaps also a danger to others.
