Interdialogging with ROBIN
On Communication Through The Internet
--Communication is at the heart of the Internet. It has been said: "The Internet is such a wonderful place because it shows that the human race is hungry to reach out and communicate; to share information, fantasies, dreams, in the hope that somewhere, sometime in this giant throbbing network, someone else will connect and respond."--
** This is an incorrect posture. Those of the people ("human race") who wish to communicate and can afford it, always wanted ("were hungry") to communicate. The IN is a wonderful means to allow those people to do so in a vast scale. **
--AOL sees this in terms of sex. They have found out that most people just want to talk about sex. Not politics, not war, not nanotechnology; just sex. Most communication on the net does resolve around the issues of sex; all one has to do to confirm that is look at the 500 top most frequent words used to do searches.--
** AOL "discovered" that "most people" just want to talk about sex?
People interested in other subjects are scant. It is easy to talk about sex, and I am no exception; but to express intelligent ideas on philosophy or science requires a capacity that is more complex than the one required for sex talk. **
--One of the reasons people like to talk or communicate or relate pathologically to sex is that they are so incapable of talking or sharing about anything else. This is the real joke of the Internet.
We have been given an instrument whose core feature, its capacity for communication, is being used by people who really don't know how to communicate. Most people can hardly communicate with their spouse and now they have the Internet. For many its like giving a person who does not know how to drive a Masarati.
The point is that we have been given something we barely know how to use. Even with its great amplyfying potentials we cannot play the flute. It is an instrument with hundreds of millions of players whose number will be a billion before we know it.
People do come to the net and some do learn how to communicate but not many. Sure the Internet and all its special interest groups that talk about politics or dogs or their favorite northmen gods seems to be doing just that, communicating. But when you look closely few people risk much of their self in their virtual communications.
** Great observation! Now I understand your point, and fully agree with it.
I have known this truth for a long time.
I've been writing in my sites about a new way of understanding the world. It became clear that perhaps no more than 200 individuals in the "educated" world can understand my writings. I really write because I obtain intellectual pleasure and widen the scope of my mind.
Those who expect to make their mark in people's "hearts" are dreamers, yet as long as they enjoy their work, there are above my criticism, and I can only appreciate their --almost wasted-- efforts.
--The Internet is no longer something on the edge of society, but is now rather something that is defining present and future society, which means it will play a great and greater role in our lives. But companies like AOL are not thinking of the Internet as something evolutionary and productive to human consciousness, they prefer to keep it simple, something in the area of pizza-pornography type consumer services.
In a decade, what will the Internet and human life be like? Will we have moved forward toward anything admirable? Hardly. The Internet can be used for things incredibly beautiful, stimulating and uplifting.
It was developed by highly creative intelligent people to serve us and provide a brighter future for our children. All of this if we can only learn how to communicate with each other through the "interactive" manner that the internet provides. Most people's two way channels have been wiped out by the one way nature of television and other mass media devices. Is it possible that we will learn and grow and shake off the brain deadening affects of one way communication? Or should we just forget it and order another pizza?--
** I believe that counted minds have benefited from inter-dialogging with me. But, realistically speaking, perhaps I am right in ordering pizza while continuing my endeavor, for my own benefit. If accidentally someone also benefits, it represents just an added pleasure for me. This is what I consider the greatness of the Internet.
Yet we should not belittle its influence in exposing the lies and wrongs of pressure groups. Still, aside from what I am sure is good for me, I can not vouch at this time for the real impact of self-appointed watch-dogs of society's shenanigans. **
