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" Graduated in 2010, and for the past few years I've been teaching.
I was among the last batch of humans who will remember what the world was like before the internet.
Before cellphones, social media, and constant connectivity the complete reformatting of the human mind.
The average human's identity is now just as rooted in digital personas as it is in physical world.
In a realm where there is no action, only words, your words become your actions.
More and more the physical world seems to shrink, becoming beholden to things that do not exist. The future becomes enslaved to an eternally expanding record or anything and everything, the past now meaningfully indistinguishable from the present.
Every day I speak with kids who are incapable of conceptualizing a world without this. It colors their expectations for themselves and society, robs them of true interpersonal moments, limits their ability to think and feel.
Nothing really ends of disappears from them, and so value is impossible. Some things are preferable over others in the moment, but art, entertainment, culture, information itself is as disposable as oxygen. "
It is all just stimulation. "Content."
I love these kids. I can see their humanity in there, unsatisfied and starved for something they don't even know how to name. The ability to shut it all down, I think. They want to go back, too.
MY ADDED NOTE:
VERY GOOD LINES I'D QUOTE IN THERE, QUITE MOST- though the last line people have consciously exchanged sometimes and to be honest it was very boring or not as educational (as well as the crap)...
SOLUTION?
We perhaps have to really PICK and choose everything though some things like the picture says is by creation or default not able to not do things as it was created that way (newer tech can't undo as easy so forced into using the rest of the bad things too and this is violence to an extent- under "structural violence" by cornering people technologically for control and manipulation means, for profit and prostituting them silently or against their will holding an ultimatum or binary "use or don't use" as it's means of coercion). And that's if you aware.
@legatus_sanctuarii
Is that something like "Kill our masters?"
Men created machines to be given freedom, but it was soon discovered that machines give control to those who control the machines. Once humanity removed the crutch of thinking machines Humanity was forced to advance in other forms . This book was written in the 60's.
@legatus_sanctuarii
Awesome- thanks. Interesting.
Do you know more about it / is it interesting to you.
Want you talk more on it in a audio chat (if not now then maybe later?)
Happy with a bit more text but audio listening is a lot more "wow" didn't know that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_prequel_series#cite_ref-SciFiDimensions_2007_19-0
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@freeschool
This reminds me of people despising the world after the printing press. I do not think this is about the world before the internet but about the conservative mindset always idealizing a frame of the past that never existed as they imagine.
I do not think the machines are the problem but a school system that bores people with access to more engaging contents. A school system that is complicit in destroying communities which I assume is what he might be pointing to the children starve for.
We have been living at the rhythm of machines since the beginning of industrialization. Class shapes a lot of that experience. It is not the machines that rule over us, but political classes thru Capital.
@PiedraFiera There will be an audio released about this very topic if you have notifications on, you will see it).
I find myself repeating myself and it seems a blind spot is what I'm regularly hitting where a transfer into technology suddenly masks stuff or people go for it (recently I've had lots of example that shows people's weakness or logic ladder which puts speed in front of their principles or completely overlooking damage of tech in order to maybe kinda hopefully gain some ground somehow to something which in the hands of fools [gov] (or just people conscerned with money) is not even a solution they would take if you put it right in front of them. And I think we hit that point many time in history - yes printing press or being able to feed the world, they / current rulers just step it up for even more profit and try suppress any good / tax the hell out it rendering it meaningless / VERY expensive which = people's time and hours to get that money and still not really get any real change just more stuff even in education along the way. We want change!
Few points I'm still amazed by:
- how people say "I do not think the machines are the problem..."
- how they / tech fans etc don't see people behind machines (literally men behind machines controlling / regulating / funding / etc and choosing what does and doesn't get through) like it's away from politics or even could be possible - hardly apolitical or non-bias - really still similar to regulating / allowing tanks just more nicer tech (military drone, then domestic drones, military optics, domestic cameras etc)
- how people trust the government or do not think that banks or government regulate STEM or machines itself and do these things primarily (and pay for it blind) is crazy for me / without reasoning
- how people forget everything is basically for as much tax and profit to head company that all companies are registered to (their government on that land mass)
- how technology takes away access or limits as well as gives things [1 way onl or take-all-or-take-nothing usage / take it or leave it ultimatums from American cyberspace / world of laws etc... highly risky externalization similar to having most company cars from American, connect to and maintain by them.. people would be more dubious but behind computers and tech it's suddenly innocent or not connected to political people - it's just a car without the resources and everything that needed command and conquer supply lines to get there.
Anyway forgive me, not a big rant the audio will cover it - hope that's good enough for now for bit by bit work / between sips of tea. Thanks.
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