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.
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