Op Ed: The Internet is Not Real Life (Or is It?)

Do you people realize that the Internet is not Real Life?

No computer or device will be able to effectively re create real, live interaction with other people. The fundamental vice of all machines is the fact that these technological wonders cannot think. The device is not an exclusive body and cannot behave per its own accord. Despite, the amount of know how, silicon, Bill Gates and Andy Grove computations that are crammed into this little microchip wafer, it cannot and will not come alive.

Please, stop living your life and gravitating towards the machine. The computer - machine has now transcended its design within the hearts of many. Millions of our citizenry have exchanged roles with the circuitry. The human is now on auto-pilot, checking email like clock work, verifying bank balances per the technology matrix, and spitting out pre - programmed "LOL" and "TTYL" code in response to the most basic of algorithms.

The mass individual is degenerating into a basic stupor of ignorance, while the machine becomes more and more sophisticated, complex, and unpredictable.

Social skills have completely fallen by the wayside. The computer does the work.

Why call, when I can send email? Why visit, when I can send a text message? Of course, I could always go on MySpace or Craigslist to "hook up with hot Chicago women." The computer says that I can get any woman I want!

I have no time for the rigmarole. Game is for suckers.

These females are posting provocative pictures with little to offer besides the typical computer jargon and various regurgitated rubbage. "Hey boo," and a fake profile indicating that I am a music producer and earn $1,000,000 per year is the only Game that one needs in this wretched place.

This is totally easy. For the life of me, I cannot understand the egregious level of kowtowing and pandering that these e-tricks and simps deliver to every female that shows up online. Are men really that desperate? Why are so many men losers with women?

Real talk. I know that I would be an Internet sensation if I were to write beneath the glare of a "Jenny" or "LaToya" pseudonym, post a fake avatar of some random blue eyed - blonde chick + cleavage, or a light skinned - long haired black female. The servers would crash and legions of simpletons would congratulate me for being able to put together a complete sentence about random "make up to break up" drama with my baby's father and going to the corner store to pick up 2% milk. Weirdos would be Pay-Paling and ACH debiting my account right this very moment!

Certainly, hucksters have already exploited the trend of lame men doing anything for the attention of a woman. Look around. How many Internet dating scams have proliferated before you people get the hint? "Becky" will not show up at your bungalow for "no strings attached fun" after your free, $19.95 trial; and "Tasha" won't come through either, despite your misplaced eagerness to funnel cash towards her foreclosed mortgage.

Ha! You idiots just blew your whole paycheck to support the drug habit of some high school drop out in San Mateo County.

Yes, I am talking smack. But, I am posting this up online. Fool, you don't even know who I am.

Rather, U DUNNO WHO I'Z B!

What is the point of even attempting to appreciate a solid command of the English language, while computer gibberish carries the day? What is the rationale behind these "drive-by" Internet thugs? Why do Black people create separate languages online to sound "real," that appear more difficult to postulate than typing basic English? Why do suburban whites try to pretend as if they are actually affiliated with some "set" that they recognize from BET via computer?

Why do Black people, Asians, Latinos, and White people take to the message boards to make threats and destroy each other with derogatory comments from the comfort of their own homes?

You would never do that? Your name is, what? Your profile says that you live in Cleveland, OH.

You must be White. Check that. You must be Black. Oops. I know you are Latina.

Yes fool, you don't know who I am, and I don't know who you are, either.

I couldn't care less about some family cat, your uncle Wee-Bay, or your gun collection. I care as much for you as I would care about any bum - stranger on the street. You are a curiosity to me, a freak show, if you will. This is pure entertainment - voyeurism; and why would any of it even matter?

I actually have a Real Life to lead.

Is the Internet Real Life?

Yes, the Internet is Real Life.

First, is not any action or object which exists within our Universe, "Real Life?"

All tangible matter is to be described as real life. Indeed, the Internet is Real Life and the computer merely exacerbates mankind's realm of what is indeed, Truth. I initially intimated that humanity is becoming increasingly more crude, while the development and lists of tasks executed per machinery are emerging as ever more complex.

I also stated that the machine cannot think, because man must program the algorithm matrix to respond to particular stimuli. Ergo, if the machine is becoming more complex, than man is actually demonstrating heightened levels of brainpower to manufacture and utilize this equipment. Certainly, we have arrived at a point of greater intelligence today, than the prehistoric era of grunting to communicate, sharpening branches into basic tools, and regularly exhausting our final breaths prior to the age of 20.

Humanity has not degenerated towards a sloth-like stupor in terms of mental capacity. Actually, humanity is degenerating towards a sloth-like stupor in terms of self-reliance and resourcefulness. Yes, we are sweet cupcakes relative to the prevailing trials of History.

The technology is our Strength. Still, this Strength is Real.

Humanity often clings to outside media as a means to cope with the shortcomings of Life. Techies praise the computer, Money Men lust after cash, and Beauty Queens obsess over the mirror. All of these ideas are "real," but not essential to existence.

The computer only highlights the weakness of Man. The individual must not define himself by a product, theory, or manifestation that is secondary to his true Person. In order to achieve balance and happiness, computer geeks cannot cling to the Internet any less than a "proud" Papa forces the game of baseball upon his young son.

The silicon wafer and the Internet only represent yet another means for members of society to live vicariously through another outside entity. Objectifying and personifying fringe matter is a weak shortcut in relation to actually attacking, rehabilitating, and cultivating the Man in the Mirror.

Men that are losers with women off-line amidst face to face interaction, will proceed to be losers with women on the computer. Men and women that exist in "real life" that achieve status merely based upon looks will be successful running the same Game online.

Certainly, recording producers that make $1,000,000 per year may not be able to attract and maintain any woman that he wants, but he will be able to mingle with, and woo any type of woman that he wishes.

In any event, men are not required to sign up for "dating services," via the computer and remit payment in exchange for the ultimate fantasy woman. Men have been paying up for the false-hope company of fairy tale females since the beginnings of time.

"Real life" schmucks pace the floor, telegraph self-hate "woe is me" banter, and promptly take this nonsense to the Internet to destroy their respective corners of that sector. Of course, nobody here really cares about these freaks.

Nobody in the "real world" cares, either.

In fact, the "real world" cares even less about our problems.

We are all Invisible Men at Main Street, U.S.A.

Get Real.