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The thing I start to worry about these days is how much of the shared illusions we have about the world really matter. There's no physical component to the concept of society, the only way we can tell its there is the way we interact with each other under the assumed rules of interaction. Its amusingly recursive, it matters because we care.
I wrote that a while ago, now lets spend some time destroying it. Society is a concept, but it has products. Holistically, society exists as interaction, but its interaction bears fruits in the form of media, technology and other crap that we use to churn forward the progress of society. Many things in our world like religion, culture, and media are illusionary because they are non-corporeal and products of language, which is infinitely malleable. The recursion part is probably worth thinking about. Society works because we want it to work, and it pays us back by making our lives full of shiny things like ipods and full racks of BBQ ribs. We like this and because turning away from society means tangling with the LEGAL SYSTEM which dispenses JUSTICE, for a moderate fee. Legality is backed by punitive power and at its greatest level, the threat of military forces. In the end everyone* benefits to some extent from society existing, some moreso than others, but that's part of the economic reality of the world that we're involved in some crazy pyramid scheme.
*(Everyone of course is defined as everyone who matters. The low end of the society are made for exploiting because of economics. Not good but not something that can be changed yet)
That whiny emo bit aside, its been a long damned time since I've said anything. I'd chalk that up to the an increasing malaise of not being able to *create* which is frankly quite irritating. Then again when you think about it what is creation other than really original modification?
Its a whole new year and all of that, wow. I've started on the MMO bandwagon since everyone's busy being all secretive, hooking up and being crazy, and so forth. There was a point at new years where I noticed a shift in the way of things. What it is I can't exactly put to words, but its probably some kind of Zeitgeist-y thing. Maybe it was a celestial voice saying that I should go farther afield, since these fields seem to be tapping out. Who knows, certainly not me.
Ah yes that was the shift, with the distant lady and her getting even more distant. Awesome, or not awesome. Not really sure. Will find out because the finding out is important. Finally lost all feeling for that one, I think, or maybe not. Unknown, amusing.
Then there's work. Frustrating, exciting and frankly somewhat more dangerous than I expected. I wish there was a way to build more stable results to make it less exciting and more profitable, but not at the moment with the skill set currently possessed.
I wonder if I've gone nuts. This written voice certainly doesn't sound very stable... eh. Madness is unappreciated genius, or improperly translated genius. Stability is the gray boredom that allows the world to function and also chains it to itself in an ouroboros of existence.
Resolution: More emotion, less detachment. More existing, less cataloging. Better following of the yin principle. More wandering, know more people, know more about myself. Maybe better sentence structure.
I wrote that a while ago, now lets spend some time destroying it. Society is a concept, but it has products. Holistically, society exists as interaction, but its interaction bears fruits in the form of media, technology and other crap that we use to churn forward the progress of society. Many things in our world like religion, culture, and media are illusionary because they are non-corporeal and products of language, which is infinitely malleable. The recursion part is probably worth thinking about. Society works because we want it to work, and it pays us back by making our lives full of shiny things like ipods and full racks of BBQ ribs. We like this and because turning away from society means tangling with the LEGAL SYSTEM which dispenses JUSTICE, for a moderate fee. Legality is backed by punitive power and at its greatest level, the threat of military forces. In the end everyone* benefits to some extent from society existing, some moreso than others, but that's part of the economic reality of the world that we're involved in some crazy pyramid scheme.
*(Everyone of course is defined as everyone who matters. The low end of the society are made for exploiting because of economics. Not good but not something that can be changed yet)
That whiny emo bit aside, its been a long damned time since I've said anything. I'd chalk that up to the an increasing malaise of not being able to *create* which is frankly quite irritating. Then again when you think about it what is creation other than really original modification?
Its a whole new year and all of that, wow. I've started on the MMO bandwagon since everyone's busy being all secretive, hooking up and being crazy, and so forth. There was a point at new years where I noticed a shift in the way of things. What it is I can't exactly put to words, but its probably some kind of Zeitgeist-y thing. Maybe it was a celestial voice saying that I should go farther afield, since these fields seem to be tapping out. Who knows, certainly not me.
Ah yes that was the shift, with the distant lady and her getting even more distant. Awesome, or not awesome. Not really sure. Will find out because the finding out is important. Finally lost all feeling for that one, I think, or maybe not. Unknown, amusing.
Then there's work. Frustrating, exciting and frankly somewhat more dangerous than I expected. I wish there was a way to build more stable results to make it less exciting and more profitable, but not at the moment with the skill set currently possessed.
I wonder if I've gone nuts. This written voice certainly doesn't sound very stable... eh. Madness is unappreciated genius, or improperly translated genius. Stability is the gray boredom that allows the world to function and also chains it to itself in an ouroboros of existence.
Resolution: More emotion, less detachment. More existing, less cataloging. Better following of the yin principle. More wandering, know more people, know more about myself. Maybe better sentence structure.