Many people who were born after me would regard digital as a natural feature of our world. They are right in saying this, because they have been born in a new period, one in which we have been invited to live with the Gods in the Acropolis.
This Acropolis has allowed us to see the world from a distance, and keep relationships going. To me, this world has helped me to keep in touch with people in my home country and regain lost friends. It has also enabled me to travel several times a day to other parts of the globe. Email, whatsapp, facebook and other deities living in the Acropolis have helped me feel part of something bigger than the place where I live or work.
However, there are now factions in the Acropolis. We do not interact or socialise with others whose interests or political views are too different. In the name of avoiding hatred, the deities have cunningly hidden us from them and hidden them from us. The deities enable me to block others and enable others to block me. By doing so they make me feel that I am right and others are wrong, and vice-versa.
This Acropolis is not the real world, nor should it become the only way to relate to others. Deities might not like this and could decide to incite us to remain here. We could leave. We are not leaving others behind, we are leaving their avatars, their virtual statues.
We are going back to our cities, our communities and our crops. Let the Acropolis crumble again. Not because we destroy it but because it can be abandoned.
Let us keep some good memories and the short visit to the deities alive as the ancient Greeks did. Like them, let us remember we are not Gods, we are mere mortals.
Time is not in our side. Let us make the best of it.
