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[- Information Excess and Lack of Purpose?
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By RobertEbright, Section question corner
Posted on Thu Oct 2nd, 2003 at 09:59:33 PM EURODISCORDIA TIME
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The internet allows one to connect to a potentially infinite amount of content and people, all through the mediated view of a screen. This opens up tremendous potential for communication, inspiration and expression, yet at the same time due to the limitations of experience and lack of focus such a broad level of access to information doesn't it tend to speak to the lowest common impulse ?
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Perhaps it's just an individual problem, but it seems from my observations that people have a tendency to float aimlessly when they spend time online, unless they are something of a techno-puritan. Perhaps if they are that kind of person they hang out at one spot and espouse their ideas through the filter of conversation with others and actually develop a sense of "techno-community".
Perhaps this is just a matter of the times, where you can have a thousand distractions to every true desire, which begs the question what is a true desire anyways. This of course is just going to be a rambly monologue about my frustrations with information technology.
See what is it that makes the internet so convoluted and polluted with self-indulgences ? Is it because the underlying substructure of man's impulses is sexual attraction and desire or does the internet just lead one to such an easy route of distraction from any focal point of discussion or debate that one might of intended in the first place.
The overwhelming usefulness of the internet seems to be contained in the access to information. Yet this information is often overflowing thus limiting the amount of access one can handle. How many stories can you read in a day and what relevance do they really have to you in particular anyways other than inspiring a thought process which usually ends with the repetition of a particular idealogy via keyboard and if contrasting views or ideas are posted then a debate which typically due to a lack of restraint or social consequences has a tendency to devolve into petty name callings.
Perhaps this whole article is nothing but that same sort of idea which I'm just tossing out. I just felt like I had to write something, since this site seems cool, I'm a politically orientated discordian and fuck it, why not toss something out into the void and perhaps find others who want to read and comment on it. |
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