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in the beginning, there was the metaphor. we probably didn't realize at such an early stage that we were building a memory machine. imagination could not yet comprehend persistence. time beyond now. and anyway, the idea was communication. co. community. communicate-ing. a shared understanding. people were probably so overjoyed with the idea/possibility that any reservations about precise translation were overridden by the joy they felt at being able to co mmunicate. and history and history and language and language and culture and SCIENCE. we became so habituated to the tool in our use of description. we relied on it to explain what we wanted to believe...we used it to explain what we wanted to convince others of. it has long since been a political tool. so long, that we no longer even realize how we are using it. that it's merely a symbol. we've become so addicted to it that we no longer understand how to think outside of it. and everything is relayed through it.
anyway. though we don't know how to think outside of it anymore, we've recently begun to play with different combinations of it, devised specifically to enact particular mini-life models that can help us to solve problems. we call these "programming languages" and they are a new kind of language. they are our first attempts to play with what we call language in order to create microcosmic models in order to (ultimately) help us understand things that we couldn't, precisely as a result of the fact that we don't understand how to think outside of language.
not that it matters so much. what i'm most interested in, is the fact that we've spent so much time since the beginning of written language/symbols trying to place less and less of the burden on ourselves. almost as soon as storytelling began to become a real art, we learned to transcribe it. what we call technology has been advancing at an ever-increasing speed. and so with the increase in information we experience, we've been discovering new ways to process (i.e. deal with) it. we've just been doing everything we can to keep (hold of) it, but with the least burden on ourselves. microchips were the epitome of this for a while. now there's nanotechnology. a brainy bonobo has a lot of difficulty dealing with 2008!
but yeah, long story shortened to the last 100 years- as we continue to allow ourselves to become aware of the fact of so much more going on than we, perhaps, wanted to be aware of when we were safe in our bubble (Universevague-earthvague-countrysortavague-statesortavague-citylittlevague-neighborhoodnotsovague-familynotvague-mealliknow), we realize we have trouble processing it all and so the need to develop/have developed technology to compensate for this. the encyclopedia was the old standard. the open-ended networkatron is the new. (media is an outdated term btw)
i actually meant to say something completely different, or maybe just completely differently. i'll say it again some other time, probably in a "poem" or something. i am drunk right now. and going to bed. sorry for whatever spelling/grammatical errors.
anyway. though we don't know how to think outside of it anymore, we've recently begun to play with different combinations of it, devised specifically to enact particular mini-life models that can help us to solve problems. we call these "programming languages" and they are a new kind of language. they are our first attempts to play with what we call language in order to create microcosmic models in order to (ultimately) help us understand things that we couldn't, precisely as a result of the fact that we don't understand how to think outside of language.
not that it matters so much. what i'm most interested in, is the fact that we've spent so much time since the beginning of written language/symbols trying to place less and less of the burden on ourselves. almost as soon as storytelling began to become a real art, we learned to transcribe it. what we call technology has been advancing at an ever-increasing speed. and so with the increase in information we experience, we've been discovering new ways to process (i.e. deal with) it. we've just been doing everything we can to keep (hold of) it, but with the least burden on ourselves. microchips were the epitome of this for a while. now there's nanotechnology. a brainy bonobo has a lot of difficulty dealing with 2008!
but yeah, long story shortened to the last 100 years- as we continue to allow ourselves to become aware of the fact of so much more going on than we, perhaps, wanted to be aware of when we were safe in our bubble (Universevague-earthvague-countrysortavague-statesortavague-citylittlevague-neighborhoodnotsovague-familynotvague-mealliknow), we realize we have trouble processing it all and so the need to develop/have developed technology to compensate for this. the encyclopedia was the old standard. the open-ended networkatron is the new. (media is an outdated term btw)
i actually meant to say something completely different, or maybe just completely differently. i'll say it again some other time, probably in a "poem" or something. i am drunk right now. and going to bed. sorry for whatever spelling/grammatical errors.