@pauljpastor Sat in on a cluster of 20-somethings talking confessionally about online dating. Tragic and saddening to hear what their souls have lost, without knowing it. Then again, I've long intuited IT but an evolutionary half-way house, the stepping stone to an archaic return of sorts.
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Graph showing how couples in the US meet. Through friends, work, family, bar, college, neighbors, grade school, plunging toward zero in the past decade. Online, rocketing, exponentially.
@EuroConOfficial @EsmeLKPartridge Could be that AI functionally represents the latest, cosmic twist of an algorithmically-supercharged parsing mechanism. And perhaps the WWW exists to undo itself. Either way, getting Real and getting Down defines an existential essential of the Soul's walk Home. Dignity, yes.
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