How we define ourselves. Too young to work, looking for a job now, I am a…, in Retirement and Out of work. What then does it mean to be Out of Work in a society arranged on work. What is work? Is it effort? Is it jobs? How are you a part of our society. How then do we interact?
Despite any naysayers technology with which we will share information about ourselves to people all over the world. I can find and meet people online, share videos, music, photos of our lives. What does this do? It bonds us with other people who are different yet live much the same lives. The more intertwined our lives with other peoples the more it binds us. There will always be a fluxion of the evolution of humanity.
The internet is the global meeting place for the planet. It’s everywhere. It just is. The Internet is something wholly new in the World. It’s more than webpages with sports scores, it’s the cellphone network which has mated with the web, it’s the GPS satellites which we can use to track our specific loction on the planet in relation to everyone else on the internet. It’s the satellites who transfer our transmissions of data, entertainment and information to each other. It’s the ability for us to use the Internet to transcend our borders to explore each other, to explore our world. To know one another. It is where Children in Tokyo go to get to the latest American Pop Idol’s presence on the informational data stream. To know that theres someone over here singing and dancing and doing something. For a man to tap into the global information stream to contact his wife across town instantly via audio, video, text message, email to know if he was supposed to pickup the blue or the pink pillow. He can send her a picture to which she can call and talk to confirm. It’s where businessmen in Dubai are looking to find buyers on the planet who want silks and linens. Where a hotel purchasing agent is looking to supply her chain with fancy linens and finds sellers across the planet. A man in Sweden takes photographs and post’s his photos for everyone else on the planet to see what he sees. To show his world as he see’s it. For him to buy the Camera from a seller in Korea and a lens from a fellow photographer in Argentina whome he met on a forum discussing like interests.
The internet is no less than the interconnectedness of humanity. Our etherial tether to each other. Communication, the exchange of ideas, information. The internetwork of humanity is communication. For us to transcend our borders mentally to expand our awareness of whats around us. Not just physically through government use of exploration to take new territories like an evergrowing ant mound. But socially through communication. With communication we can share our understanding of life around us. To realize we are together.
The use of religion is a sign of a persons not yet understanding their place within the Universe. As one divests themselves from primitive idol worship, spirits, devils, imps and satans. What is truly important is our realization of our relationship with one another as human beings. That we are destined to survive or fail as a species as a living group of humanity within the cosmos. And when we can realize that we can take the next logical step and realize that all life is important and sacred. The realization that we have a choice in what we eat demands that we regard all life that thinks and feels. As we may regard someone of lesser intelligence, deficient of faculty etc we should regard other creatures because we will be regarded by higher species and intellects. We are all gods of some sort to other beings. Are we to be a god to ourselves? To revere each other and hold each other sacred as we would a god.
If Barack Obama gains the nomination and goes on to win the election. In America it means a vast momentum has been halted of the extreme right. This is the point in time in which America said no to Torture. More profit for mega-corporations and at the expense of the environment, the tax payer. A much needed shift away from the false democracy. Prepaid votes in every congress thanks to K steet.
