update

Over the last century there has been more change than in the previous two thousand years, the rate of change is accelerating. The glory of the human animal is no longer individual vision but rather a cognitive vision, such as the building of the Brooklyn Bridge. Our fates are now interrelated and no longer localized as global warming poses a challenge to the entire planet. Language has made it possible to share a collective vision. Yes dolphins squeak and bees dance but it’s a hell of a step to writing Shakespeare. Tools have long transformed history and the invention of the computer as a tool has been world changing. The floating of information on the internet has allowed us to explore our brains through computers. The adoption of the phonetic alphabet was intensified by movable type but this is being left behind as we move into a cybernetic lifestyle. The nature of computers and computer gaming is much like a psychedelic experience in a virtual reality. Cell phones give us a power similar to telepathy that would allow us to transmit our thoughts directly to another. The production of integrated objects into our civilization, which have ideas and purpose lodged within them is distancing us from the animal domain. Culture has become our operating system and it will continue to build on the foundation already in place. With the invention of the internet, we now have permission to explore irrational behaviors. Porn and violence are easily accessible to our youth. Our levels of tolerance has changed. The internet has brought us more forms of connectedness. It used to be that your ideology was dictated to you by your geography, if you were born in India than your idea of the cosmos was different than if you had been born in Brooklyn. We can now transcend these localized ideologies. The internet is not something that the government gave to its people, it was dreamed up by hackers, freaks and heads. Reality can be hacked and identity can be stolen. We are living in an increasingly psychedelicesque society.