Re: the nature of the creator of the heavens and earth
Mod X- its shape, lost my name as well.
but i mean fuck it lets just take some soma and go to the smellies. Brave new world is one of my favorite books. I did a semester long meditation on futurism of the early to mid 20th century a while ago, and I had some pretty cool revelations during it. It forced me to look at a lot of people's perceptions of the future through the minutia of day to day life and how it would be impacted on the smaller scales by technological and societal advancement. The crazy shit that I was finding, however, was that most forms of continuing themes within the works that I was using as a base for the project have already in some form or another come to pass within our reality. Take for instance, the concept of "instentaneous information" that a lot of sci-fi stories talk about. It is already here. A couple weeks ago, I was on my friends computer and they had Trillian running. Now trillian acts as a third party host program for all communicative programs such as AIM, MSN Messenger, etc. But what I found most particularly fascinating about it was the script within the program that analyzes text, finds an appropriate entry within Wikipedia, about said phrase or text, and then displays it as a bubble when you run your cursor over the word. Now, at first glance, that may not seem like much, but if you really think about it, its fucking amazing. We can know any and everything one may like to at any point in time, given a connection to the net.
I was having a pretty long conversation with some friends last night about a sort of techno/informational induced neurosis that seems to be becoming more frequent if not actually emerging as a sort of social sickness. There is a kid that we know that just yesterday went to the hospital for going off the deep end a little. Before he left he had a very long conversation with my friend Mike. Mike and I began to discuss where the kid's head was at and how it came to be that he was in his current mental state. We figured that it was a combination of things, but that one of the more readily focused ideas that made this possible was the level of connection to the world, and its instantaneous nature, that he had through his computer. He got a bit lost in a lot of the philosophy he had been reading, but there was much more that had obviously been affecting him. He was so ready to adhere to the thoughts of someone else, and to acknowledge the positions of so many different people other than himself. His knowledge of actions happening on a global scale caused him to dissociate from the locality of himself. Every moment became encapsulated in this constant global view. I mean shit, I read google news probably at least four times a day. That shit is scary when you read it outright. Let the headlines sink in, and take them at face value.
One of the more disheartening things we came to last night when discussing this kid was that it was a familiar feeling, and that it is a lot more accesable to anyone than just a regular psychosis might. Hail to the new flesh right? The fact that this seeming pyschosis of his is predicated upon an awareness of the world and its happenings is a little fucked up. What happens when this shit starts popping up regularly with some random teenager who happens to stay up reading too much online...
Ill get some more stuff out in a couple days for you Mod X. Good conversation so far.