Just a forewarning: I’ve had two glasses of wine prior to writing this. By glasses I mean half bottles. By half bottles I mean about 60% of a bottle.
I’ve been thinking about technology recently, and after reading about a recent patent application filed by Amazon.com Inc. to embed ads into literature displayed on their Kindle e-book readers, I’ve been thinking about where literature and technology…no, information and technology intersect. Thinking about that and what it could mean to all of us.
It’s funny, but I feel like the flow of information and the timing of said flows is the most important thing that a nation could invest in. In addition, there is no more powerful opiate to the masses than them thinking that what they believe is…well, gospel. Providing people with more information than they can reasonably sort through, information that is truly meaningful, providing them with legitimate battles to fight, and legitimate victories is so distracting to real events, that the real power struggles are disguised and hidden.
Again, I’ve had a lot of wine to drink. This blog posts’ original intention was to say I wanted a completely automated home. But now I’m thinking about information and the transformative power it has, in addition to the psychological effects of information.
Psychological effects of information? Have you ever overheard a conversation where most of the words were obscured by ambient noise…most of the words, but not all… Imagine a conversation like that where your name was included as one of the words that was not obscured… This has the effect of making people instantly curious as to what is actually being said about them. This has a psychological effect on people – they wonder what has been said.
It’s funny but I can’t help but think now, that education could easily replace religion as the opiate of the masses. Of course we’d have a more effectively controlled and happier populace with less suffering as many of the problems of the world would be solved, and our country would continue to be one of increasing power amongst the world…but i can’t help but realize and think that the funny thing about America these days, is that its’ base of power is receding. The power is in helping everyone become as self-actualized as possible – which is not a mutually exclusive with commercial/capitalist success – while making token efforts to defeat enemies such as greed, corruption, and social ills such as intolerance.
What’s funny is I’m realizing that that is what politics and media is all about…
Magic tricks…Charades…distractions…
I probably shouldn’t drink…
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