Sometimes humour can explain subtle differences between private worlds

These are two clips from Seinfeld: about George’s worlds that he keeps separate – colliding, because of someone else’s actions.  The episode is the one in which George’s two worlds collide. It’s the one where “Relationship George” and “Independent George” battle it out for supremacy. The conflict of the episode is that George knows what will happen when his two worlds collide: “Relationship George will kill Independent George”. In George’s mind, there is a clear separation between his love life and his life among friends.  The analogy is to the current struggle we’re having between our “digital life” and our “real life”.

Personally, the dichotomy of a “digital life” being somehow different from “real life” is already false…..other than it is probably easier to lie and cheat in the real world.

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3afZip4BTRc]