The headline says it all:

Tokyo man marries video game character

Don’t know what else to say really. I just read Futuretainment, where author Mike Walsh makes a pretty convincing case that all the merging of the social, personal and technological going on is a good thing.

But this kinda blows that to shit.

Technology is just another thing people create, like religion, laws, governments, and big-eyed, disturbingly-childlike asian cartoon characters. What we (re)make, and how we use it is an expression of who we are (at that given time, everything being permanently changing). If people are afraid, they build walls and weapons. If they are feeling lonely and disconnected they create…digiwives?

But who am I to judge? He seems content and isn’t hurting anyone…although you can make the argument that antisocial behavior does indeed hurt society.

Maybe it is cool? Maybe these are new ways of connecting with each other and ourselves that old fuddy-duddies over 16 just can’t understand? Maybe hanging out with his Love Plus character will help Sal 9000 be a better boyfriend and husband to a real woman one day? Maybe we’re all going to hell in a handbasket, twittering endlessly into a void where nobody listens and everyone is waiting to talk? Does the wired world mean we’re all hikikomori in waiting?

Riddle me that, Mr. Walsh!

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