Friendship is slipping further into mediation, filtered through technologies and codified social structures. The weight of loneliness grows as connections are rerouted into circuits and systems that promise togetherness but deliver distance. In the unfolding horizon, the future looks stripped of unmediated presence, leaving companionship as an echo carried by machinery.
Systems themselves betray the pattern: every technological intervention offers a fleeting sense of purpose or relief, only to fade and reveal deeper fractures. Identity, pressed into templates and representations, becomes less about lived relation and more about survival within structures that estrange. To exist through these intermediaries is to endure a slow erosion—alienation, marginalisation, and dissonance are not side effects but the ground on which identity now rests.
Connectivity generates the illusion of abundance while quietly amplifying the absence at its core.
Daedelus Kite 