Living by proxy in a digital world

What is "living by proxy"?

It means "living vicariously through others experiences", in the sense someone is a spectator of multiple experiences from extraneous people.


The effects on premeditation through mass remote experience exposure

Uncontextually, may this be entirely true?

So you are a being of a thousand life, that has traveled to all the continents behind a screen...

Haven't you really gained experience?
Do you really wish to travel?
Don't you've seen it all?
More than you could ever physically experience...
Is this perhaps making you existentially bored?
What if you could emotionally feel other persons experiences remotely?

So what is there left to experience?

• Creative processes
• Higher sensory experiences
• The sense of sharing a discovery experience
• Emotional connections
• The sense of productivity, achievement and worth towards one another

Antithetically, these experiences require richer human connection in a ever more detached society.

So what's your solution to enable people transcend these limitations?

Why are some intrinsically motivated to travel? Or maybe some could but lost their motivation...

Viajar? Para viajar basta existir (...) Só a fraqueza extrema da imaginação justifica que se tenha de deslocar para sentir. - Fernando Pessoa

Translation: Travel? Existing is enough to travel (...) Only the extreme weakness of imagination can justify that one must travel to feel. - Fernando Pessoa

The answer and antidote for his kind of melancholia?

Deeper connection, purpose and transcendence.