Having gotten on the web you think you're hot stuff, that you're going to change the world, but it comes home to you quite quickly that The World isn't paying that much attention. Thus, our continued struggles.
But that kind of realization is nothing new. Way back when, the same thing happened. Buddha threw up his hands and with perfect equanimity calmly stated "I'm moving to a less contentious plane". Jesus followed him, ascending as well, as did the other big prophet hundreds of years later. Wise men (and women, many of them) throughout history have also declared "We're outta here!" and what's left is what we have at present.
Socrates, Plato, Alan Watts, Krishnamurti, Lao Tzu, Confucious, all tried. They left writings behind, as I probably shall, perhaps for the very few to peruse. Where will the rest be?
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In the 'Esports Arenas' that are cropping up! 'Esports' are online gaming teams(?) individuals(?) that are watched by other gamers. Drake, the rapper guy, got online the other day and 600,000+ people watched him navigate through whatever game he was playing.
Sigh. Guess I shoulda been a gamer, huh? But- I'm not. I do what I do best, which is I philosophize about trends, the proclivities of the masses; I write about distractions, ways to overcome those, and hopefully add some value to life's experience because, guess what gamers? This game, unlike the ones you play, is gonna end. And when it does, you just might look back and think "What a waste!"
But not if you're riding the leading edge of Esports! The guys at the top and fronting the new teams springing up in major cities across the land are making bank, living large, and thumbing their noses at guys like me and.... ...that's always been the way of it. Exploiters of any new technologies think they're pretty cool 'cuz they've got the inside track and you're so far out on the periphery that you might be likened to Pluto, orbiting way out in the icy reaches while they're on the third rock basking on the beach hoisting their Cups O' Noodles (gotta eat fast in the gaming world) and showing their MILLIONS of followers how good they can play 'Fortnite', which I understand is the hottest game out there right now.
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Seems to me that as far as many of the gamers are concerned, the icecaps could be melting, their Cups O' Noodles could be made with frackwater broth, the president could declare that DoubleSpeak is going to be taught in our public schools, and zombies (not onscreen, real ones) are marching on Los Angeles. The important thing to gamers is that their 'increasingly beautiful digital worlds' (as one writer described them) continue to be developed, and, for the promoters of the contests (like in any other sport that hopes to make it), 'seats' for the fans continue to be filled.
Somehow I think for the gaming world that's not gonna be a problem.