the terrifying permanence of the internet
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What terrifies Emma about the internet's permanence?
You want to know what just absolutely terrifies me, keeps me up at night, and then when I finally fall asleep, fuels my nightmares? Let me tell you about the permanence of the internet. This is a reality of life that I contemplate multiple times a day. And not in like a sort of beautiful, introspective way. No, I contemplate this reality of life multiple times a day in fear, in a panic, overcome with anxiety. Okay, I am tortured by the permanence of the internet. Tortured. And it's kind of funny because... I am as tortured by the permanence of the internet as I am because of my own voluntary actions. Okay, I made the decision to post the last seven years of my life on the internet. I did that.
I made that choice. Now I'm sort of tortured by it and it's like, okay, but I did it to myself. That's a reoccurring theme for me. Okay. I often sort of get myself into the most uncomfortable predicaments in my life. Usually I'm the one who did something wrong to get myself there. Although I don't think I did anything wrong because I actually have no regrets, even though I am completely tortured by the permanence of the internet. I also am aware that it is something that I have to deal with in order to be on the internet. Like, the internet is not the internet if it's not permanent. That is a key detail. I briefly paused this episode to let you know that this episode is presented by Westin Hotels and Resorts. Westin Hotels is designed with your well-being in mind. With more than 200 destinations around the world, Westin Hotels makes it possible to keep up with your wellness routine while traveling.
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Like my brain and body equilibrium is very off. Would I love to hit a vape right now? Yes. But no, I don't own vapes anymore. I only hit other people's. Anyways, I will say, I do think that I am more significantly affected by this reality of life, the permanence of the internet, than the average person because my entire life and my entire career is on the internet. However, I do think that this is a concern for people in the 21st century, okay? I think my feelings towards it are a bit more extreme, but I actually do think that this is a concern for everyone because it is just a current truth. This is just something that, like, the internet is permanent. That can be good and that can be bad. Do you know what I'm saying? For everyone.
More so for people who, you know, have a career on the internet, who have shared a lot of their life on the internet, but still so for people who have not. It's sort of terrifying for everyone. I think because I'm somebody who's shared majority of my life on the internet, I look at a time prior to the Internet where everyone could sort of just evolve and grow as a person in the real world. And everyone was judged based on who they were within their close knit community. And obviously, there's always been celebrities and public figures who have, you know, been judged on a larger scale. But even those people couldn't like go on Instagram and read their comments. Like there's something sort of beautiful about the fact that, I don't know, like the past was the past.
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