Blogger's Block and Post-Web Technology
Forget blog depression, let's talk about blogger's block, the sinister online cousin to writer's block. Sometimes a blogger has every intention of spending his entire day composing posts, but can't think of a single thing to write about. That, or current events have proven so overwhelming that we're incapable of a response. Or there's so much information we don't even know where to start.Either way, if we're to believe the rah-rah pro-tech theology of WIRED's recent statements on an awakening, God-like Internet, a.k.a. The Machine (surely a misnomer, as it includes machines and humans), to not blog is something akin to a sin, a failure to assist in the "programming" of this Machine which will be both Mother and Ultra-Tool to we super-evolving (post)humans. Regardless if people even read your blog, blogging seems to create a certain amount of "virtue" or "merit" in that one is leaving the Internet a little more whole than it was when one found it. New connections are being made, new scar tissue laid across the Earth-wound, new sinews and synapses stretch and fire. You can link to MF Doom, John Bolton, Portland-based clowns, and trash-talk about Suicide Girls' secret neocon philosophy, all in one sentence!
But should we just assume the world will be better place if only we'd all string a few more URLs together? Not quite. But in my opinion, the really interesting post-Internet tech won't emerge until this thing is as big, robust, diverse, and omnipresent as possible. It's at this point that companies stop charging for industrial tech (pumps, hoses, trucks, conveyor belts) and informational tech (databases, hosting, coding) and start charging for something beyond all of that: energetic tech. Yes, we'll be paying for customized "energetic impressions", "orienting generalizations", "subtle illuminations", "hazy ideas", "faint glimmers" and other barely-conceivable "Intuition Products" with which we will soon be augmenting our SOULS the same way we've been sprucing up our bodies with industrial tech and our minds with information.
But the "general energetic tendencies" can only be built on the ephemeral grooves we lay with our "linguistic association matrixes". Subtle impressions and complicated conceptual ecologies must grow and thrive before they can be populated with info-deities, so let's get to work, bloggers! And if that doesn't motivate you, Nat Goldberg will.
posted by Paul S. at
8:17 PM
7 Comments:
Do the various neuro-programming technologies (holosync, neuroprogrammer, brainwave generator etc) fall into that category, or were you thinking of something more specific, or perhaps even something more community orientated?
One big giant holosync link up, with participants from all contintents, sharing their various archetypes, Buddhas and Christs to form one super duper subtle mindfuck?
Sounds great!
ah, i didn't even think of that angle. what i'm talking more about is the commodification of feelings/vibes/subtle-energy -- like you'd take a drug or plug into music or whatever for a specific subtle energy state... shit, maybe we are talking about the same thing, don't know. gotta think more about this...
ps
also, what you've listed are basically the hobbyist/early-adoptor face of this new technology, the "subtle energy economy" (SE) version of early internet bulletin boards. who knows what the SE equivalent of Google will turn out to be?
also, i forgot to consider bio- and nano-, the former of which seems nearing mass-consumerization, while the former still seems like so much sci-fi hooey (besides all the gains made in materials science). perhaps SE and and bio will join forces, and we'll be designing and breathing life into recreational biological organismz in the near future?
Designer enlightenment pills? Yeah I guess the distinction is that with all the mind/brain technologies there's still a level of 'work' or labour associated with their use, you've gotta do the time, but it's aided. Subtle level drugs take away the work and in turn make religious experience a commodity.
Is that such a problem really? If they could make Acid or Ecstasy or some derivative thereof that gave you a 12 stretch of nonduality, does it really matter that it came in pill format?
Just on that same point: I'm keen to see some kind of development in the area of intersubjective subtle experiences.
Are they even possible? Shared dreams, meeting spaces for subtle bodies...
now THAT is what i'm talking about! frankly, nonduality pills are boring to me -- but the technology of COLLECTIVE subtle energy EXCHANGE (an economy of realizations, occult forces, etc) is what fascinates me!
never heard of "peppermint the clown"
check out dingo
http://www.wweek.com/story.php?story=6617
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