Thing is that much of plato’s work doesn’t take into account the complexities of the internet, ofc he predicted it’s creation and the ways it would be used to unify society, and also warned against the dangers of echo chambers, but the prominence of the gaming industry came out of left field. With the creation of roblox in 2001 everything changed, the new subcultures and multi leveled ironic memes altered the way we have to think about life and our place in it. Perhaps humanity was meant to simply worship such figures as the despacito spider, perhaps we are meant to create more companions for the spider god. Perhaps the spider is just a simple philosopher like the others and we must interpret his teachings carefully.

What does despacito really mean? I half remember a conversation in a bar with a hispanic friend of mine where he explained “despacito means slowly” the profundity of such a meaning stuck with me and on realizing the despacito spider says “despacito” something clicked into place, the spider wants us to be more attentive to our lives, “slowly” meaning slow down, not to stop and smell the flowers but to stop living in the future or the past. The importance of the present is emphasized by the simple single word “despacito.” Being a meme allows the spider to explain to the masses with ease and virility, one word repeated across all our means of communication. If we live in a society.