Are you lost in the world like me?
Zygmunt Bauman, Polish philosopher and sociologist, argues that our era is characterized by "liquid relationships", very fragile bonds that we create with people.
This way of relating is also heavily influenced by technology. Many, lacking strong and deep relationships, seek a substitute in the number of followers and friends on social networks.
More than relationships, "connections" are established which appear, from uOn the other hand, more reassuring, because they are more superficial, and less authentic.
We all live in two worlds now: online and offline. We have moved from the Cartesian assumption "I think therefore I am" to the generational assumption “I APPEAR, THEREFORE I EXIST.”
Oggi non si ha più paura di essere visti troppo, ma al contrario si ha paura di non essere visti abbastanza. Il problema non è che esistano questi due mondi, ma è confondere e sostituire la vita online con quella offline per mitigare e negare la paura di essere soli.
In my opinion, one of the functions of modern psychotherapy has as its existential goal that of helping the person, especially adolescents, to recognize their own resources and fears, with the aim of transforming virtual relationships into real relationships, reducing the risk of ISOLATION.
An extreme example of getting lost in the offline world is represented by the social phenomenon HIKIKOMORI which literally means "to stay aside, to isolate oneself," from the words hiku "pull" and komoru "to withdraw."
The video of Moby “Are you lost in the world like me?” highlights this new generational issue, emphasizing how being lost in the offline world actually means losing touch with oneself and others.
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