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That was a heavy text, it makes people feel powerless. Sometimes I'd think of the electronic world as an illusion, which I suppose I am the one to project and control the situations, but eventually I am the one to be tamed. It's something similar to a trueman show, where people trapped inside struggles getting lost and confused of what to believe. Especially if one don't understand the capacity of the technology, s/he'd be totally subjective.
I hate to admit but networks and all those handy electronic devices make us mentally fragile, we are completely exposed to all sorts of hypnosis disguised as "useful/productive" information.
When I was in high school, I studied some general business administration, and there is one line from the textbook I could hardly unsee. It said: marketing is the act to create needs and wants. Since then, I slowly realized how companies(or businesses) controls human behavior and I learnt to be skeptical of information.
Sometimes I would think of the internet and the electronic world as the 4th dimension, which the devices are just the point of the connected surface. As there ought to be lots of things more, but they're in anyway unreachable from where we are at the moment.
According to the theory of dimensions that each dimension is a sub-level of its higher dimension. For instance, a shadow (2D) is a projection of an object (3D). Comparing this to the reality, or better to say as the society that we live in, one similar example that I could think of is the effect of currency control constrained almost dominantly by exchange rates on the accessibility (including the prices) of goods.
