A good friend of a previous foster child of ours, kindly came to warn me about how something that a current foster child posted online three years ago had been resurrected to defame his name now.

The internet can be a cruel machine that twists and weaves, armed to deceive, leaving victims, innocent and otherwise, with damage to their emotions and mental health. And to their lives in their actual home neighbourhoods.

We are learning, and the next generation will need to learn even more thoroughly, that life needs to be grounded in real friendships, real geography, real communities, real people.

It needs that foundation regardless, because even glorious 5D Hyper HD Virtual Reality becomes meaningless without a real Reality to compare it to.

But it needs it all the more when the shit hits the fan, and when the lies and deceptions are placed into the hands of the witless bullies and the easily led, cloaked, via the dark magic of The Internet, in a veil of unanswerable Cyber “Truth”.

That is the moment when you need real people on your side.