Existential Vacuum and the iSelf

Billy Goat as Self Portrait by Pawel Althamer

Coming Home to Who You Are

Rather than denying the technological advantages of the digital world, I want to identify one of the consequences of detaching from the essential components that took 150,000 years of Homo sapiens trial and error to achieve a joyful life. What I call the iSelf is the digital identity that an alarming number of good people are choosing to embrace in place of emotional belongingness…