the mental representation of our digital selves

We don’t just live in our mental representations of our digital selves, we confuse our inner person with it in its projected environment and begin to act as if we were that digital copy of our self in its imaginary context. Whether it’s an ideological one, or one we use in a gaming environment, or a version of it we use in social media or we just use to variously influence others to relate to us in a certain premeditated way. Either way, we then lose the inner psychic context which is the natural environment of our inner person. And in our physical life we lose the closeness and interaction we need to be able to experience it in the real context it has in everything around us. As a world inside the world. In that sense, our inner person is not different from who we physically believe us to be when we have not yet learned to consciously distinguish them as we experience them. If we cannot embody it, we force both ourselves and others to act in a way that is consistent with the ideas we have about the mental or digital environment we put it in. We make our own inner person and that of others one and the same thing in the mental atmosphere we put them in, and at the same time as we do this, how we perceive the concrete reality we share with others becomes distorted as we embed the digital representation we have of our mental self in the external imaginal reality without us even being aware that we are doing it. We fully immerse ourselves mentally in the digital personality with its thoughts, feelings and ideals that we have invented for ourselves as our connection to the world that differs a lot from the direct physical one in which we live. If we want to change our world to the better this is where we have to start. I believe that much of the hostility and resentment we create at all levels of our social environment consists of this misplacement of our inner person. Which then turns it into a disaffected piece of shit whose lack of integrity becomes the dark reality we then impose on everything around us. Regardless of whether it is about close relationships, work relationships, cultural differences or the aggressiveness that occurs between countries. It is still an act performed by a single person, even if performed simultaneously with others.