Ahh.. catster. finally a web community for people who are not satisfied with just creating myspace accounts for their kitties. In a way, this is our version of Egyptian cat mummification. The ether that is the internet is not unlike the netherworld that the dead travelled to with all their belongings, including their pets. Creations like Meez require real money for intangible objects, just like mummified Egyptians needed real gold in their crypts to buy any items they needed in their afterlife.
But rather than having to wait for that netherworld (to arrive, or be arrived at) we are actively experiencing it here and now. At least in bits and pieces. Sometimes 1 hour a week. Other times less, and most times more.
Is this our participatory alterlife going to be viewed by anthropologists 3000 years from now as ways humanity in the beginning of the 21st century conceptualized of an afterlife. Funnier ideas have been bandied about.
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