Sending some love
by Bob on October 27, 2007
This is all about someone leaving a comment on a social interaction network, such as MySpace, etc., regularly, saying "Sending you some love". It might even be just regular email, but that is less obvious and infrequent in the sense I mean the comment.
When most people who you don't know in the real, sensory world, face to face, leave you a comment like "Sending you some love", it is meaningless, when we look at its real depth of emotion.
In the non-e-world, that comment between friends can mean something very significant.
But in the e-village, it is a monstrosity of self-aggrandisement and false feelings. In fact, it is the entangled spider web of the human frailty, namely, being told about love, and thinking the person really means it, when in fact, they have just sent the same message and image with a beautiful throbbing heart to a hundred other e-friends.
So, "love" in this context is barren of any emotion. One might as well be playing a video game, or pushing a lever on a machine. It's a cold, empty gesture underneath the comment and image, and yet we all fall for it.
It's a staple of communication on social interaction networks such as MySpace. There are even companies who will provide the image of the throbbing in exchange for their advertisement on the image forever.
So, if we fall for the empty emotion, we are in trouble. We are mixing e-emotion with real emotion.
E-emotions are just a mouse click away, to and fro. Real emotions are in your face and take energy and work and commitment to being a real friend or lover.
Behind the veil of Oz, was the Wizard cranking away at the machine to produce the illusion. Here we have the medium producing the empty message. Worse than even the medium being the message itself, as Marshall McLuhan predicted many years ago, which has also come true in our time.
So one must guard one's real heart and emotions from these silly meaningless darts of seeming enthusiasm from e-friends. They are just not there in point of fact, statistically.
We should reserve love for real people we can touch and see and feel. Caveat emptor. And The Beatles sang "All You Need is Love" in 1967 but they meant the real thing. Not a JPEG or an animated sparkling GIF image.