the hive mind? doesn't that answer your question? we lose our identity. i certainly don't want smoke and mirrors, i want mty kids kids to know the person they're speaking to isn't some 50 pervert. i don't want a relationship built on lies which many online ones are. what's wrong with duty. i have a duty to my kids to provide for them even when they grow up. i have a duty to protect them. i know people who tell me stories of my grand dad. this net isn't always going to be there. if facebook and google keep down the path their on it may go sooner than you think. [as we know it] what safe harbour for whistle blowers? assange has spent how many years locked up in some embassy, snowdon had to move to russia, manning was locked up in a military prison. this internet is the last place you want ti hide as a whistleblower, someone will out you if you do. while there is some good on the net we are talking about personal relationships and identity. when you mention cultural advance you're talking apples and oranges. but lets look at it, at what you say it helps; did it help kids in Yemen or even adults? did it help those in syria? china? russia? africa? to mention a fraction. it certainly didn't help the rowhinga. the help it creates is but a ripple on the waters of poverty, peace and oppression. back to the hive mind; is that what we really want? or is it what we've been told we want or need. sorry, i have a mind of my own. i may use the net but i don't allow it to be me or my life. i do not live in or on or near it. i feel for those who do because i see them as the one's who truly live in fear, fear of the warts and the nuts and bolts. so there's a vid of my dad fixing a car on the net; you think that's what people will remember him for or by? we live we die we are carried in those we leave behind, do we care if we have vids and pics on the net? will the feed our kids? they're just fluff not even real fluff, just the virtual stuff. Does society value the internet more than life, do you believe that? seriously, and if you do do you think that a good thing? as for wanting smoke and mirrors, sorry but i don't, of course i lie a little keep things secret now and again but that isn't smoke and mirrors. if someone wants to know something about me i tell them warts and all.
real v virtual? the real is real, i can touch them smell them see their body language make a good guess as to who or what they are. virtual, generally lies and bullshit, take a look at all the shit on facebook, 50% of what you see are force fed fuckin adverts, targeted adverts from other and all the other sites you visit. as i said i use the net, i keep in touch with mt friends and family through and for that i'm grateful. i run an internet poetry site overall i may spend an hour or so on line. on my site and talking with my family.
overcoming xenophobia? again really, have you see the hate people spout on here, stuff they'd never do in really life. more kids commit suicide from bullying on the net than in real life. just look at the hackers, the black hatters, the racist post, the hate speech all the things you say are good have all the opposites in equal abundance. in real life we have the same but most would say boo to mouse off line. and yes i am looking at it from a personal perspective, you say my feelings are based on tribalism and fear. it's a lot less in real life than it is on here. the tribalism on line is ubiquitous you have to join or log on to this group or that. the on'y hive you speak of is the number of people on here, they're not of a like mind by a long shot. there's more factions at play here than there are grains of sand in the Gobi. million, tens of millions of different groups shout down or up each other. even on face book. say something someone doesn't like and they go after you like fuckin wolves
so i don't see the common interest as much as i see social discord. just look at this thread. imaging if this was out there on facebook? they'd shouting for me to hung drawn and quartered. your hive mind isn't hive mind it a conglomerate of millions of differing hive minds, if you think that a good thing then that's what you think, i've said what and why i think as i do. i tried not to speak in generalizations though some got in there.
just an addenda, there's more than me in my family, it goes back three generations and is rather large just a thoughts. there ais something else which gives food for thought;
Six degrees of separation is the theory that any person on the planet can be connected to any other person on the planet through a chain of acquaintances that has no more than five intermediaries.
this thought was around before the internet, now that's reality
real v virtual? the real is real, i can touch them smell them see their body language make a good guess as to who or what they are. virtual, generally lies and bullshit, take a look at all the shit on facebook, 50% of what you see are force fed fuckin adverts, targeted adverts from other and all the other sites you visit. as i said i use the net, i keep in touch with mt friends and family through and for that i'm grateful. i run an internet poetry site overall i may spend an hour or so on line. on my site and talking with my family.
overcoming xenophobia? again really, have you see the hate people spout on here, stuff they'd never do in really life. more kids commit suicide from bullying on the net than in real life. just look at the hackers, the black hatters, the racist post, the hate speech all the things you say are good have all the opposites in equal abundance. in real life we have the same but most would say boo to mouse off line. and yes i am looking at it from a personal perspective, you say my feelings are based on tribalism and fear. it's a lot less in real life than it is on here. the tribalism on line is ubiquitous you have to join or log on to this group or that. the on'y hive you speak of is the number of people on here, they're not of a like mind by a long shot. there's more factions at play here than there are grains of sand in the Gobi. million, tens of millions of different groups shout down or up each other. even on face book. say something someone doesn't like and they go after you like fuckin wolves
so i don't see the common interest as much as i see social discord. just look at this thread. imaging if this was out there on facebook? they'd shouting for me to hung drawn and quartered. your hive mind isn't hive mind it a conglomerate of millions of differing hive minds, if you think that a good thing then that's what you think, i've said what and why i think as i do. i tried not to speak in generalizations though some got in there.just an addenda, there's more than me in my family, it goes back three generations and is rather large just a thoughts. there ais something else which gives food for thought;
Six degrees of separation is the theory that any person on the planet can be connected to any other person on the planet through a chain of acquaintances that has no more than five intermediaries.
this thought was around before the internet, now that's reality