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title: Virtuality in 2022
date: 2022-11-01T10:29:27Z
modified: 2022-11-08T16:48:33Z
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The very first post on this blog back in 2004 was around the [topic of Virtuality](https://dogwonder.co.uk/2004/03/baudrillard-on-the-internet/). Whilst reading the Atlantic recently I stumbled across this, which seemed to better encapsulate virtuality in 2022 more than it did then.

> \[This\] is the real meaning of contemporary virtuality. In the virtual space, the technology combats and corrects our frustrations with reality itself – which defies expectation and understanding, by definition.
> _I seek. I find what I know.
> I enjoy this recognition of
> myself. I am trained over 
> time to trust in a path to
> understanding that leads
> through the familiar, that
> leads through me. “I am the
> arbiter of what is real. What
> is more real than me?_
> In its basest form – and make no mistake, the baser the form, the stickier the engagement what we’re describing here is a profound technological support for primary narcissism.
> 
> ‘_[The Singularity is Here](https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/12/ai-ad-technology-singularity/620521/)_‘ by Ayad Akhtar (The Atlantic, 2021)