Moving slower than the speed of the internet

Reclaiming our capacity and humanity

I think a lot about the ways modern technology and social media feed our senses of immediacy and urgency. The ways our expectations around communication has shifted. The ways it all impacts our ability to be in the in-between spaces, to be in the silence, as well as how it affects our own autonomy and agency. 

“Life does not move at the speed of the internet.” Our brains don’t either. Nor does our human ability to process information, feelings, experiences. 

Because we have the technology that gives us the choice to respond or share information immediately, we have grown a very bizarre skewed expectation that we (and others) should reply immediately, that if we didn’t record or declare something on social media, then it never happened or we don’t believe it, that others should be at our beck and call, stopping everything to react or respond to us (and we to them).

I think about lovers at the turn of last century. Anais and Henry. Frida and Diego. Simone and Jean-Paul. Their letters publi…