9. Bucolic virtual fields

The human mind is like a piece of land. Depending on how you take care of it, what you choose to sow, how you water it, keep it clean and protected from harm-that is what you will be getting out of it. I come from the far gone analog world when things were what the eye could see. A time when I was reading about the Internet. This is how I first interacted with that which later become a bottomless virtual bucket. Or should I say, blanket. As you might have understood by now, my knowing of the of life has happened through the medium of written books. In the part of the world of my coming into life the internet came tiptoeing. In some other parts of the world, the internet was conceived and then it was spread around like fire. With each decade, the ferocious dreamers of the world took it a step deeper, further, more. The book "Doppelganger" by Naomi Klein - a nonfictional book, written in a journalistic style, is talking about a ripe contemporary virtual world. A world where strange ideas, otherwise impossible, have found fertile soil and have come to mutate in all these strange sub-cultures, sub-universes that the internet is nowadays made of. The book talks about the strangeness that arises from being human in a virtual world. It talks in details about the reality of Naomi Klein herself , who is being confused ( by the virtual public) with another Naomi. This second Naomi has almost the same credentials, appearance and not so similar views and opinions ( but who cares in the anonymous virtuous world ?) about complicated real matters. The author does a great job at describing her own emotional and mental state throughout the whole dissociative experience. The confusion becomes acute during the pandemic, a very fertile ground for all kinds of parasites. The author is taking a journalistic, if not investigative, approach trying to explain the complicated ways in which the reality (that which has happened and can be proven) is being diluted by all these other seemingly real truths. These adjacent truths come in existence because some type of life force is pushing them into being. In this case, her doppelganger is the life force contributing to the proliferation of all kinds of theories. Reading about it is rather fascinating. It seems to me that we( humanity) are fundamentality refusing to accept the reality of our being. We are refusing its finite nature, its rough simplicity - if our fears, reactiveness, wars, craziness are taken away. Since the internet has creative additional possible virtual realities, we are dealing with an immense amount of information and we are lost. I would say that essentially this book is an attempt to bring sanity - in the author's life and some kind of logical frame in the life the readers. It gives us a reference point in the vastness of the virtual fields we are slowly treading toward our end. I loved all the references and resources mentioned along the way, I'm going to take notes and use them as further reading. And this will be my world.