Together with the authorization for us to film ourselves while we have virtual sex, the State and advertising promoted that we have dinner with our cell phones on the table, a practice that was previously criticized. We all know that we already did it for different reasons, from work to emotional. Our floating or unconscious listening captures the different vibrations emanating from our intelligent and increasingly sensitive environment. We can repress the reaction, we can pretend that we are not interested, but the effect on our perception is undeniable.

Boredom

The problem to begin to understand virtual reality originates when the values ​​appear. When we begin to value experiences and say that there is something, an aura, an authenticity that is lost in the passage from one reality to another. Walking is not the same as riding a stationary bike, even if you have a sun and beach mural in front of you. But it would be a serious mistake to interpret that we are saying that the physical bicycle is a less valuable experience than walking around a square.

In fact, deep down in our consciousness we are already beginning to accept that the loss is not so great, and that it is compensated in some way by other acquisitions that we would not know if it were not for virtual reality. The most obvious: the number of friends we have, the amount of information we consume and produce, the creation of intense communities,the overwhelming expansion of cultural products, the multiplication of erotic flirtations, the daily use of pornography,live cams sex etc.

• All these virtual experiences affect what for me constitutes the real enemy of contemporary life, boredom. The problem is not loneliness, it is what we do alone.Boredom is the Achilles heel of our entire existence. The experience of boredom in routines that even entertain and amuse us is an excellent test to discover a dimension of ourselves that we ignore. In 1930, M. Heidegger dedicated a seminar to the experience of boredom, which in those same years W. Benjamin represented as a bird that incubates the egg from which our future experience will come: modern society has little tolerance for boredom , He assured. It is an experience that became literally intolerable. Oh coincidence, it is in her where the dispute for our future nests.

Pansexuality

Virtuality is for now the last expansion carried out by electricity. It expands our subjectivities in many dimensions, including sexual, of course. Virtual sex supposes a different sex than the one we knew with physical contact. It may or may not end in ejaculation. It may or may not be heteronormative. It may or may not be phallocentric.