What if… All this new interactive media we’re being bombarded with, is a plot?…A conspiracy?… What if some sort of “evil” puppet masters were planning to use them in a great game? What if, facebook, cel phones and all these other communication tools that connect us to each other over great distances were created in order to increase our hunger for social interaction and connection with each other? What if these tools were used only to attain the goal of conditioning enough mass hunger for this sort of connection, and then, through use of engineered crisis, they then take our tools away, so that we are left with this hunger which we must then feed by actually personally interacting and connecting with each other in our communities because that’s all that’s left. Think about it… It would be like a mass personal development program. This is the training ground. After being exposed to the huge breadth of variations of people out there that the internet has been absolutely amazing for, we also may be more inclined to come together in the real world with the others most like us - those who understand us best. All in all, if this was the case, we would end up with a better world in many ways if we were tricked just so into relating to each other in our communities.
BUY THIS SHIRT AND SPREAD THE WORD….Though if this conspiracy is not the case and we continue to develop these technologies , they will increase our hunger in this way, consistently more and more, until, all of our resources are squandered on the maintenance of all these increasingly complex systems just to satisfy our ever increasing appetites and we will eventually be forced into this same situation where we lose our tools due to over grazing and are forced to come together in our communities.
So I guess it is indeed not a matter of if this will happen, but when. Will we choose it, or will it choose us? Will we resist it in fear, or embrace it in Love?
We can start now by embracing our communities now, even using these technologies to augment our connections. If our communities are truly serving themselves and the necessities of life rather than
handing this responsibility on to corporate and governmental interests, we may find that this transition from our world of complex imaginary systems into a new world based on real relationships to be much smoother.
Tuesday, 9. February 2010
The cyber industry professionals service the growing mass of alienated humans who, for the most part, have little or no voice in society. Overwhelmed by society and its rate of change and speed, increasing numbers of people search for and create their ‘identity’ in virtual worlds.
For many, the cybersphere is the only place that allows them a voice and control over their life. This represents the final stage in the evolution of mass mind into a highly atomized and divergent consciousness. At this stage, self-promotion is endemic wether anyone has anything to say or not.
In these worlds, people become the fantasy of themselves. However, this is a necessary stage in devolution of consciousness. This is not to discount the good and the true that uses the Internet as a tool to create a collective vibration of positive change on behalf of the planet, that, at best, merges into global mind, tribal fusion. But for the most part, Internet web sites are used as a forum and perpetuation of ego in its many forms.
The Internet represents both the evolution and devolution of human consciousness. This is the stage of maximum divergence into myriads of individual egoic selves, each having his own space in virtual reality to show ‘who they are’, by stating their opinions and posting pictures of themselves to project different images in hopes of attracting new virtual friends, etc. On the Internet people can sit behind their machines and voice opinions about various topics or say things about others that they would not dream of saying in person.
With the massive increase in population, many people do not know where they fit in or how they can make a difference, so they tattoo and pierce themselves and get a site on Facebook to show everyone ‘who the really are’. Sociologically this is the only response that many people have. Wether the technologies are manipulating them or not, most people have deviated so far from nature that they prefer to play a video game than take a walk in the park. The alienation from nature and infatuation with artificial society and virtual means is so profound that humans now live inside the machine, and the machine lives inside of them.
‘What will most surprise us is how dependent we will be on what the Machine knows - about us and about what we want to know. We already find it easier to Google something a second or third time rather than remembering it ourselves. The more we teach this mega-computer, the more it will assume responsibility for our knowing. It will become our memory. Then it will become our identity. In 2015 many people, when divorced from the Machine, won’t feel like themselves - as if they had a lobotomy.’ [Kevin Kelly, Wired Magazine Aug. 2005.]
So, lets paint a picture of the effect of industrial technology on the human being. The effect of technology to replicate artistic expression in mechanistic repetition.
By the 20th century the psyche of society was largely shaped by photography, film, radio. Media we take for granted today. At the same time traditional arts were splintered into more and more esoteric realms, leading to more experimental modes of consciousness. The materialistic point of view is that machines will give humans a more comfortable, better, easier life. This is a single sided myth, denying our multidimensionality. We better ask: Does the human love the machine because of the effect it has on our consciousness? Does the human become more infatuated and absorbed with the machine because the machine gives the illusion of a sense of power, authority, and control over nature? In this way the psyche of the human becomes the psyche of the machine.
The machine and machine society alienate humans from nature. That is the core of the conundrum that we find ourselves in today. The human now operates in highly artificial environments - modern urban concrete jungles with occasional parks, subway trains, shopping malls, grocery stores filled with artificial light… Even when we take a walk in ‘nature’ we still have iPods and cellphones glued to our ears, and at home tv and internet fill the senses.
The point is that removal from nature increasingly predisposes the human to further identify with the machine, to become infatuated by the machine, thinking that every new gadget increases its intrinsic power over nature. This is a cumulative process in and age of rapid increase in technology… In this type of environment, filled with Warhol’s Campbell’s soup ‘canned’ entertainment, virtual reality becomes more fascinating to the human than nature. This sets the stage for the present day where the human is continuously and sometimes frantically searching for his true identity.
This problem of identity is acute and profound at the end of times as we live in.
During these final decades, global society has become increasingly obsessed with problems of identity and security. There are adds everywhere regarding identity theft and the need to purchase more security systems to protect particular interests and to ensure that your identity is not stolen. These adds are all over the internet, magazines, billboards, newspapers… Their net effect is to arouse more fear and insecurity. And insecurity comes from two sides: mass media and computerized society. Hackers stealing credit card numbers, answer questions asked by machine or fail to complete your business by phone. The user has little chance of personalizing questions. The perceived threat of terrorism also gives rise to ever tightening security measures, including the increase of police and armed forces. People are made to wear identity badges and present their identity wherever they go. It seems we have become obsessed with identity and the protection thereof. As a consequence, everybody is burdened with various identity numbers sofi, credit-card etc. but who are you really? And what is your true identity?
The issue of identity, identity theft and security is a smokescreen, as people do not even know who they really are. Many do not even realize that discovering who you really are is an option; they are deprived from searching for the fundamental cause of the natural formations of their being.
Viewed from a sociological/psychological perspective, the entire human species, as a planetary organism is in a major identity crises. This crisis is exacerbated by immersion in the machine, the social injustice caused by those who control the machine, and the alienated ones who seek to reject the machine or use it against those who control it. It is interesting to note that the cybersphere only came into existence in the last 25 years.
By the 80’s, human civilization had radio, television, fax, film, copy machine, satellite hookups and the personal computer. These technological factors adversely impacted the human’s capacity to search for authentic self, by simultaneously increasing anxiety and competition, while stimulating people to model themselves after brand-names. All of these are components constituting and contributing to what we might call the ‘fictitious personality’ of the planetary human.
Then came the internet, from the 90’s; the ultimate conglomerate media technology, the Internet is the fusion of the personal computer, telephone, streaming video and audio- all in one. In this way, the Internet becomes the virtual electronic nervous system of the human species.
As technological speed and expansion increases, the cyber and electronic technologies impact the human mind and senses so swiftly that there is no time for assessment of the impact. As opposed to the heavy industrial technologies like automobiles and elevators, information technologies affect the raw data coming in through our eyes, mind and ears. These new technologies ultimately stem from the the computer, hence, the cybersphere - the sphere of the artificial intelligence and communication.
When a system reaches its limits, this is the point when a new evolutionary stage is triggered. In other words, you can look at the course of the cosmic evolutionary process and see that every time there is an evolutionary jump or shift it is precisely because the preceding stage or the system constituting the main element of the preceding stage has reached it’s limits. This is not difficult to understand because the organism constituting the system has limited means of expression, of information gathering, conditioned by particular kinds of instinctual tendency. Both the mental and physical environments are bombarded daily with increasing volumes both of created goods as well as information. Since the means of expression are limited then obviously after a certain time all the possibilities of expression of the limited system become exhausted.
[VV-CHV-III]
Friday, 4. June 2010
Facebook is an illuminati conspiracy. Zuckerberg has their occult sigil embroidered on the inside of the company hoodies!
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