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wolven7It was almost exactly seven years ago (http://wolven.livejournal.com/199767.html) that I first mentioned the concept of the penultimate goal of founding a Collective of Individuals, or a hive mind which respects the Single Self, and all that it can add to and generate within the group. Not Borg-- no mere ant colony of control and distribution-- but something more and better. Something cleaner.
I went into the idea, again, here: http://wolven.livejournal.com/201368.html
And here: http://wolven.livejournal.com/701357.html
And it has come up, twice, today, in conversation at work, and in the show I'm watching. Now, in talking to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jerem_morrow, he suggested, as others have, that the internet is this thing, or has the potential to be. And while I don't deny that what I want could not be possible without the internet, but the internet is Not the the thing for which I am looking. There are too many petty arguments, too much of "who can piss higher up the rope," for the Internet to do what I need it to do, and there is a severe lack of the will to communicate and the drive to, once we have communicated, Do The Work We Have Determined Needs Doing. No consensus, no will to find it.
And some think it's human nature, that way. But I say, in a truly linked sensorium, with a constant assesment of what the individual means and can offer, where we know each other, well, we have the hope to make it a reality. Now, this hinges on ideas that some people find shaky, at best, but fiat this: That the sensory and neural impulses of the individual can be linked and transmitted to other indivduals. What good things can we do, with that? I think some of the best things in the world. But it has to be a choice.
In thinking about this, today, and yesterday, I realised that people are too often forced into the hive-mind. The Borg overrun whole civilisations and worlds, and assimilate them into the collective. No choice, only "This Is Best For You." This is the first wrong step. There has to be a choice, a recognition of what can go right, and the range of potential consequences (as far as we can, of course, while allowing for the unknown unknowns, but cataloging our types or reactions, for their eventualities), and we have to communicate to each other that which we share and feel.
The rammifications of this are social, sexual, emotional, psychological, epistemological, and ecological, and I think the balancing of the two extremes and the embracing of that resultant paradox is a worth goal.
These thoughts brought to you by Friday Night's "DollHouse" episodes, and conversations over the course of today.
I went into the idea, again, here: http://wolven.livejournal.com/201368.html
And here: http://wolven.livejournal.com/701357.html
And it has come up, twice, today, in conversation at work, and in the show I'm watching. Now, in talking to
jerem_morrow, he suggested, as others have, that the internet is this thing, or has the potential to be. And while I don't deny that what I want could not be possible without the internet, but the internet is Not the the thing for which I am looking. There are too many petty arguments, too much of "who can piss higher up the rope," for the Internet to do what I need it to do, and there is a severe lack of the will to communicate and the drive to, once we have communicated, Do The Work We Have Determined Needs Doing. No consensus, no will to find it.And some think it's human nature, that way. But I say, in a truly linked sensorium, with a constant assesment of what the individual means and can offer, where we know each other, well, we have the hope to make it a reality. Now, this hinges on ideas that some people find shaky, at best, but fiat this: That the sensory and neural impulses of the individual can be linked and transmitted to other indivduals. What good things can we do, with that? I think some of the best things in the world. But it has to be a choice.
In thinking about this, today, and yesterday, I realised that people are too often forced into the hive-mind. The Borg overrun whole civilisations and worlds, and assimilate them into the collective. No choice, only "This Is Best For You." This is the first wrong step. There has to be a choice, a recognition of what can go right, and the range of potential consequences (as far as we can, of course, while allowing for the unknown unknowns, but cataloging our types or reactions, for their eventualities), and we have to communicate to each other that which we share and feel.
The rammifications of this are social, sexual, emotional, psychological, epistemological, and ecological, and I think the balancing of the two extremes and the embracing of that resultant paradox is a worth goal.
These thoughts brought to you by Friday Night's "DollHouse" episodes, and conversations over the course of today.
