Vexism

In the middle of the strong current evolutions, a new trend arrises: Vexism or Virtual Existentialism. Described more in-depth in the book the 2010 the virtual era, Vexism defines a new philosophy, a new way of life.

Between freedom and constraints, how will it be tomorrow? Won't the new virtual Universes offer new freedoms? Gradually, following the technological innovations, the expansion of creativity in video games, the online games... will it make it possible to create, to discover new internal languages, the myths and legends of tomorrow, bases of new entertainment and new evolutions? Or will we go even further, towards a new existentialism?

How to define Vexism? Freedom, pleasure, speed, intensity, variation, extreme, virtual, new Universes... are among the words able to explain it. Some images might help us better understand Vexism. We could represent our existence by a large steamer travelling the oceans with its strong inertia. A change of direction takes a long time to implement, acceleration and braking also. They are the constraints of our habits, our structures, our sociocultural environment which force our own evolution to be set between certain acceptable limits and at a moderate pace.

On the contrary, in the virtual Universes, our existence would rather be represented by a Formula 1 with striking accelerations, impressive braking capabilities. Furthermore, we can choose to have fifty Formula 1 or, on the opposite, one second later, we can walk quietly along a suny small road to listen to the singing birds. We are entirely free of our choices, of our existence, well almost free as our choices are still dictated by our conscienciousness with its habits and structures. Vexism, Virtual Existentialism, shows that these new Universes will widely increase the freedom of each of us. Till where will we dare explore?

Stay tuned.