In Chuck Klosterman’s “Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto” he talks about the popular video game, The Sims, and ponders the relevance of living an e-life that is for all intents and purposes, completely irrelevant. He talks about how The Sims illustrates that “even eternally free people are enslaved by the process of living” but then admires the creation of his pseudo self, saying after scoring with a hot e-chick “this SimChuck is one suave bastard.”
Perhaps for us Web 2.0 ers, Facebook is the new Sims? Why interact with people when you can just poke them from the comfort of your own bedroom?
