Virtuo-city: If you build it people won't come

Virtuo-city is a place where the future is constantly evolving, a place to which people are becoming increasingly drawn as they shrink from the intrinsic benefits only those with an outdoor intimacy can truly appreciate.  They can lock themselves away in darkened rooms for days on end, shut away from any real opportunity to interact with any who may sport a welcoming, human face.  In fact, when they are forced to meet those annoying needs of the old world they do so grudgingly and with disdain.  Their electronic gods are jealous gods but will patiently await their imminent return and allow eternal forgiveness.

I often feel that I am living a Leunigian nightmare when I see friends, colleagues and family substituting a real life with a virtual one.  

Here are a few tips for those who have lost their way:

• Lose the Wii Tennis, pick up a racquet and find a court.  
• Get away from facebook for an hour (baby steps I know) and talk to your neighbour face to face. 
• Quit playing Call of Duty 4 and join the army. (Well only if you want to)
• Turn off So You Think You Can Dance and join a Salsa group. 
• Before ordering your vegies online, walk down to your local grocer and catch up on the neighbourhood goss before you buy the vegies you really want.

Trying this out will benefit those who still believe that Old World Charm has a place in our society.  I, for one, will continue to fight the fight until the fight is done.

(Let it be known that I am not a luddite nor do I subscribe to the ideas of those that  are anti-technology.  Far from it.  I do, however, see a need for many of those I know to live a life that is worth living and above all, real.)