http://www.andremonserrat.com/2005/12/29/one-is-the-lonliest-number/ Scattered pages from an apocryphal diary Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:36:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://www.andremonserrat.com/2005/12/29/one-is-the-lonliest-number/#comment-135 Monica Fri, 30 Dec 2005 18:59:00 +0000 #comment-135 Hey drey, know what you mean. I'm going to throw a little "polyanna" in there for ya (perhaps it's because I'm sleep deprived that I can maintain the optimism), but perhaps the digital world allows us to transcend spacial boundaries so as to find a much better fit of a tribe for all of us. Back in the day we may have been limited to the direct people we were in physical proximity to. I shudder to think about having to pick someone to get married to in the town I grew up in at this point, or having my friends limited to their number. The only problem is that we find our "right" tribe, but we are then missing the physical necessity of proximity to other humans that comes with being a collective. We get a super big bonus, but also a large drawback that I think maybe we have to figure out how to solve. (and BTW, I think our anonymous friend should learn how to spell before they get all high and mighty:) Hey drey, know what you mean. I’m going to throw a little “polyanna” in there for ya (perhaps it’s because I’m sleep deprived that I can maintain the optimism), but perhaps the digital world allows us to transcend spacial boundaries so as to find a much better fit of a tribe for all of us. Back in the day we may have been limited to the direct people we were in physical proximity to. I shudder to think about having to pick someone to get married to in the town I grew up in at this point, or having my friends limited to their number. The only problem is that we find our “right” tribe, but we are then missing the physical necessity of proximity to other humans that comes with being a collective. We get a super big bonus, but also a large drawback that I think maybe we have to figure out how to solve. (and BTW, I think our anonymous friend should learn how to spell before they get all high and mighty:)

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