domingo, 17 de maio de 2020

Love in the Digital Age

In 2003, the Polish sociologist and philosopher Zygmunt Bauman in his book "Liquid Love "speaks, even before the advent of the internet social networks of the way that our human relations became somehow more "flexible" developing increasing levels of insecurity.
the liquid modernity "a world filled with confusing signs with a tendency to change in a quick and unpredictable way" in which we live in brings with it a mysterious frailty in human bondage , what he calls a "liquid love ".
Basically Bauman points out to the fact that given the wide variety of choices at our dispose in the "love market " we not only trivialize human relations but we dehumanize the other reducing a human being to something that like any other item can be discarded and replaced by something better .
The wide variety of choices that the Web offers in terms of relationships, endangers the possibility of solid and fruitful relationships.
The internet brought with it an enhancement of one`s individuality that carries the idea that i, as having the divine given right to happiness, should seek it in the most brutally selfish manner looking to a partner now as long time investment but as a temporarily one .
Tragically in this scenario not only love relationships and family bonds are endangered but also our capacity of treating the other with humanity is as well put to danger .
Internet speeds up  the ephemeral nature of Life .