As I was talking with a friend of mine, I observed a peculiarity in our modern day-to-day interactions which is this: It seems that we are living in a certain time where our interactions are like that of a Schrodinger’s Cat. How so? You might ask…
Well, the way I perceived this was the following: seems like today we never really know how a certain interaction with other people will go. As a friend of mine put it mildly: “have they read the message? is she online? when will they respond? will they respond? we’ll never know”.
The same way that Schrodinger’s cat can live in two states at once until you open the goddamn box in which the furrball is in, it seems that with every new interaction is just like the goddamn cat, you never precisely know if there’ll be an answer of any kind or not.
And how would that make certain people feel? If they have a bit of foresight, I guess, maybe we could interpret that, well, other people are busy with their own lives and doing their stuff. Maybe they are really in a hurry and responding to social interactions online is not a main part of their day. Or, on the other hand, some other person might start considering that maybe there’s something wrong with themselves that made the other person lose interest in them somehow.
In any case, there could also be a third option which is a mixture of both. Or even a fourth, if we consider that the other person just doesn’t give a f*ck about social interactions in any way and will not reply because they just won’t adhere to the ‘de facto norms’ of our current world which expects a certain level of immediatism in such interactions.
So, what we are left with, on a certain spectrum, if the fearful foresight of not knowing how things might go, and to an anxious mind, or person, that could mean the worst case-scenarios running all over their heads, all at once. But then, the flaw is really in other people? Or on us, for not keeping on check our perceptions of reality (in such way, fantasies) with reality itself? But then again, how could we really ‘see’ the reality of another person if such interactions are so sparce and we have no way of grounding our interpretations and perspectives on what’s going on with the other?
In either case, seems like running the russian roulette with schrodinger’s perspective is an even more oddball. You never know if you’re going to shoot, and neither if the said cat will be dead, or alive, if the gun does go off.
Interesting times, indeed!