Understanding the internet - coherent version
July 13th 2007 15:51
Alright so my previous post turned out to be a ramble. If anyone wants to read some stream of consciousness kinda stuff, then feel free to check out the previous post.
Now here's the deal. The Internet. They have it on computers now and its gonna change the world. Scrap that, it is gonna be the world. If you don't get that, you just got left behind.
I'm sure most higher ups in the western world understand that to some extent. They know if they miss this boat they are left behind. But even for those people, they will have to understand the thing before they can jump aboard without leaving absolutely everything behind. They want to get on board but bring their power or whatever else with them. But they are too heavily burdened to jump aboard. The train is getting faster and all those aboard are starting to realise what they have. We shall never let this bully jump aboard with all his power and intent to enslave us. For the postmodernist before us have created a world which fits their grand narrative. They said "there is no grand narrative", there is no history, no truth, no absolute, no binary oppositions. Nothing is reducible, everything just is, infinity was shattered into infinite pieces and scattered about the world. For about 100 years since the most recent positing of this idea by people in the west, people have been trying to work out whether this is true or not. In the meantime, the postmodernists have been building things which exemplify this view of the world. They create art with multiple meanings. Fragmented stories charracterised by disconnects, rearrangement of the same peices from other stories. Essentially they created a world based on their world view.
So then what is the internet. Surely it is their greatest creation. The postmodernists were seen as destructive, as having destroyed all the academic disciplines, destroyed belief in morality, destroyed art by taking away its belief in its own creative capacity. But they have been creating all this time. Creating a reality. Just as the Enlightenment figures were building something. They too were considered as destructive as destroying the exact same things. Especially the religious basis of morality and societal order. But they were not destroyers at all, they created the modern world. Sure we recently realised that what they had created was no utopia, as they might have thought. Indeed the sword that the enlightenment thinkers weilded was double edged, what was designed to create freedom proved also to provide new and bigger methods of enslavement, what was designed to make people happier proved to be capable of causing the biggest suffering ever whitnessed. Nonetheless, they did a pretty good job, things really are better and I would choose to live now and not under feudalism, no question.
But now the next big creation is about to come along and prove itself way bigger and more powerful than their creation. Moreover it will make things better for everybody because it gives them the option of doing whatever it is that makes things better for them.
Oh man. I'm horrible tonight. What was I thinking? I have no discipline, that was probably more of a ramble than the previous one and I haven't even adressed the essential issue of what the internet is all about. (wink wink)
Now here's the deal. The Internet. They have it on computers now and its gonna change the world. Scrap that, it is gonna be the world. If you don't get that, you just got left behind.
I'm sure most higher ups in the western world understand that to some extent. They know if they miss this boat they are left behind. But even for those people, they will have to understand the thing before they can jump aboard without leaving absolutely everything behind. They want to get on board but bring their power or whatever else with them. But they are too heavily burdened to jump aboard. The train is getting faster and all those aboard are starting to realise what they have. We shall never let this bully jump aboard with all his power and intent to enslave us. For the postmodernist before us have created a world which fits their grand narrative. They said "there is no grand narrative", there is no history, no truth, no absolute, no binary oppositions. Nothing is reducible, everything just is, infinity was shattered into infinite pieces and scattered about the world. For about 100 years since the most recent positing of this idea by people in the west, people have been trying to work out whether this is true or not. In the meantime, the postmodernists have been building things which exemplify this view of the world. They create art with multiple meanings. Fragmented stories charracterised by disconnects, rearrangement of the same peices from other stories. Essentially they created a world based on their world view.
So then what is the internet. Surely it is their greatest creation. The postmodernists were seen as destructive, as having destroyed all the academic disciplines, destroyed belief in morality, destroyed art by taking away its belief in its own creative capacity. But they have been creating all this time. Creating a reality. Just as the Enlightenment figures were building something. They too were considered as destructive as destroying the exact same things. Especially the religious basis of morality and societal order. But they were not destroyers at all, they created the modern world. Sure we recently realised that what they had created was no utopia, as they might have thought. Indeed the sword that the enlightenment thinkers weilded was double edged, what was designed to create freedom proved also to provide new and bigger methods of enslavement, what was designed to make people happier proved to be capable of causing the biggest suffering ever whitnessed. Nonetheless, they did a pretty good job, things really are better and I would choose to live now and not under feudalism, no question.
But now the next big creation is about to come along and prove itself way bigger and more powerful than their creation. Moreover it will make things better for everybody because it gives them the option of doing whatever it is that makes things better for them.
Oh man. I'm horrible tonight. What was I thinking? I have no discipline, that was probably more of a ramble than the previous one and I haven't even adressed the essential issue of what the internet is all about. (wink wink)
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Comment by Lily
Ars Poetica
i think you said it all right there.
The Internet is a runaway train...
~Lily
Comment by Denergo
Next Step
But what's interesting about the internet, is it is at peace with its double edgedness. Or moreover it is omni-edgedness. It intentionally serves all purposes, whether they be traditionally thought of as good or bad.