A Space Without A Goal
Part VII
Mix it. Think of it as weaving a richer web. Or webbing a richer weave.
How do you reintroduce a sense of mystery into people's lives? You introduce them to the web.
Seems okay to copy. It's our attitudes to copying that may need to change to reflect that fact. Our attitudes to copying are a reflection of our attitudes to ownership. Our attitudes to ownership are, for the most part, incoherent.
Who owns meaning? We all do.
"A Nobel Prize is waiting for the person who figures out the economics of information." - Jay Ogilvy
Made or non-made, it's all the same. Sublime.
"The self reflected in the mediated sublime is an artful creation of a life that shapes and fashions symbols as if they were reality. In a symbolic economy, symbols are as real as it gets." - Jay Ogilvy
Symbols are as real as it gets.
The Web's as real as it gets.
"Stephen Donadio, a professor of American literature at Middlebury College, has argued that represented experience (as seen on the video screen) is rapidly replacing direct experience as the defining sensibility in American life. Echoing Percy Walker's earlier observation about the movies, Donadio suggests that television certifies what it shows (and, by implication, decertifies what it does not show)." - Ron Powers
The web certifies everything.
Made and non-made reality, it's the same stuff.
Every experience is equally legitimate, no matter what it is.
"Memory is a reenactment of perception, indistinguishable from the original act of knowing." - Kevin Kelly
"You can't make up anything anymore. The world is a satire. All you're doing is recording it." - Art Buchwald
Realness is the quality of interconnectedness.
"Linearity in print and thought has made language unable to deal with the invisible world in any meaningful way, except as pathology." - Terence McKenna
"In the matter of understanding the self, we have yet to leave the playpen in the nursery of ontology." - Terence McKenna
"There will come a moment that will be an absolute leap into faith, and we will simply have to believe that something is waiting there because the dominator style of the ego has left us no choice." - Terence McKenna
Let go.
We are made of others.
The human virtues are about connection.
Only connect. Only be connected.
"The future is already here. It's just that it hasn't been evenly distributed." - William Gibson
"The art of order is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. Life refuses to be embalmed alive." - A.N. Whitehead
Order and novelty are not disjoined.
Receive from the past. Live in the present.
Late October, 1995: "The first major survey of Internet use among the general population has found that adults in the United States and Canada spend as much time surfing the Internet each week as adults devote to watching rented videocassettes...figures suggest that the Internet is approaching mass-market penetration much more quickly than earlier studies had predicted." - The New York Times
The web is a vacuum.
Shaping your future is a question of which connections you choose.
Connecting is inevitable.
Everyone's vision works best.
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