Let there be blog! And there was...

A good friend put me on to Blogger, and since it was a good idea I decided that it was finally time to get my own Blog. While I'm still attempting to sort this new communications outlet out...I suppose it's customary to do something interesting in one's first post... Well, to be honest, I can't think of anything interesting to do. I don't have any videos or cool pictures to show at the moment. I feel rather behind by not having my own blog. Having one seems to be the trendy and "normal" thing to do, but to be honest I haven't really had the desire to post anything to the web. Then it occurred to me that all this time I have been observing the internet and its communications culture as a bystander, letting things happen without my own particular impact. While some might consider this basis for a complex of some sort, I prefer to think of it as conscientious abstinence as a result of curiosity.

The problem in our current social system is that it suffers from an inherent and potentially fatal flaw in its structure: namely the degradation of information which by all rights should not be degradable, and the illusory originality commonly known as individuality. These are the chinks in the mechanism of information transfer and share that all too easily trigger synchronization in our present social structure. This is sometimes referred to as ‘acts of creation in the name of consumption.’

Blogging is a prime example.

In every society there are certain personalities that are sought for. Characteristics sought by the system itself. Most people are completely unaware of this phenomena. In the vastness of the Internet, people unknowingly are searching for information which jives seemingly uniquely with their own particular understandings. As they do so, they are drawn together, driven to disseminate and inherit information evenly amongst themselves. The experiences and traits of one, become equal to all. They do this because they are subconsciously driven towards the notion of collective thought.

There is an interesting perception that there are those who exist purely because the mediums they seek exist. War exists, and therefore so do the soldiers and observers. Alternatively this can be viewed as ‘war exists such that soldiers and observers may exist.’ The same can be said of the Internet. The network exists, therefore there are those who are the creators, and those who exist because of it. This at first appears to hold true when one considers the behavior of the Internet. However, the reality of the situation is that Internet users are really one in the same. Human beings naturally tend to localize upon features which appeal most to their own lust for security and safety, and paradoxically, their own individuality.

Oddly enough it is the search for unity of thought that may ultimately end in Man’s destruction. As more and more people flock to sources of so-called “right” personalities, society grows ever closer to the satisfaction it believes it needs. However, at the same time this is occurring, the very act of unification sterilizes the populace, thereby destroying the organism of Man from within. It is, after all, the uniqueness of the individual that separates the creature of humanity from the machine. As an example, mankind’s quest for artificial-intelligence tends to indicate that creativity and individuality are the hallmark of sentience, and yet at the same time we as humans actively pursue that which makes us uniform.

What does this all mean, you ask? It means that in order for people to continue being individuals in an age where individual traits can be so easily indexed and shared, and information is so readily accessible, people need to be self-motivated towards their own individuality and not that of others. In short, be yourself.

So now that I’ve filled your head with a load of words that will likely cause insomnia, frantic fleeing from this blog, or whatever...I’m gonna go to sleep. Because it’s like, now midnight, and I’ve just filled a page with text for the sheer heck of it, and because I have to get up super early tomorrow to get a head start to IKEA.

And BTW...If you think this post was crazy, try living in the head of the person who wrote it!