The Internet Part III: Technological Teleology

Humans, in our self-created "evolution", have accelerated us.  Many may say that we're becoming weak by depending on tools such as the Internet.  But really, these things have become part of us, just as we may depend on a kidney.  But until we become fully integrated with technology, the fears of obesity and being eaten by a larger animal remain.

But really, what is the purpose of having technology consume us?  In the end, as humans become lazier and lazier, we become cells in a massive global organism called the Internet.  Laziness, as we have it, is a by-product of technology.  Rather than total domination by work, the end of humanity comes when we are actually able to do work without having to work.  But at that point, we as a whole would be born.

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Note: This section, "Pandora's Box" needs to be about psychology in general.  I'm moving into the territory of giving out psychological damage that could go beyond hurting a person and a relationship to emotionally crippling someone for their life.  It's not that I care, but that I prefer being the only person that knows; mostly, it's because I have no answers.

It's Valentine's Day

Anyways, in my method of not celebrating (for one obvious reason), I will discuss the concept of being isolated.

I partially got this from a book about Lost.  It is said that a one is revealed to who one truly is by being stranded on an island.  I took this a step further.  What if this person created the island?  As part of a exercise to dissect someone, I took them to the lower levels of Poly's theatre where the lights were all off.  Then, I asked them a series of questions that eventually led them to telling me a story that they made up about them being on an island.  They made it all up, besides the fact that it's an island.  As the story progressed, it became more and more imaginative.  By the time we were called upstairs, I knew his greatest fear.  It was useless, since I had no idea what the cause was, but it worked.

The island works in mysterious ways.

The island has its reasons.

61% is an incorrect figure.

It's now appeared that the incestuous relationship game has blossomed and blistered within Polytechnic High School.  If those actually in a relationship or not in one at all, this shouldn't offend you.  For the rest of the population: I'm going to spend around 100 words in order to say two: FUCK YOU.

This should define it:

In high school, from 14 to 19, "relationships" take a different form.  Ethically, they should be a mutual respect between two people who have minimal hormonally-charged feelings for each other.  In instinct, it's the stage where the young humans are taught how to deal with mating.  That means that it's not a game.  There was no goal, and if there was, it's certainly not the joy of logging on to facebook to switch your relationship status so you can use my minifeed to piss me the fuck off.  It's simple.  Have feelings.  Whatever.  But it is not a prize.  As soon as you start holding your significant other's hand in the air, you begin to commodify a human being.  It makes humans an object.  In many senses, yes, humans can be objects, but in the case of relationships, it's the most hypocritical thing to objectivize someone who you want to share emotions with.

In the end, if we were simply to judge human beings by the relationships that they are involved in, we destroy our progress as a human race.  Maybe it IS just the looks.  But it's not an image or a toy.  Humans go for looks because that is a sign of selecting a healthy mate to make healthy babies.  But when people start dating JUST FOR THE RELATIONSHIP, you are waging war on other humans by making them objects.  Thus, in the situation of attempting to establish proper unions, we are actually making war.  This symbolically destroys the human instinct and right to reproduce by portraying it as a form of death.

So to summarize it: to those who are not in real relationships or single between 14 and 19, FUCK YOU.  YOU'RE FUCKING MURDERERS.

Units of Utilitarianism

Has anyone ever given consideration to what's the significance of their "life"?

Of course.

But no one has ever decided to measure it?

Of course.

People should be measured by their interactions with the world.  These units, positive or negative, will result in their evaluation in society.  Those with more positive measurements are rewarded.  Those with more negative measurements are punished.

It's a simple method.  In a few years the Internet will be able to check on the measurements of each individual of a state (not that it will, but it can).  Possible units of measure include: the number of people that die as a result of an excessive usage of resources by one person, the number of offspring that cause overpopulation, or the amount of creativity that can be monitored through the Internet as well.

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Note: I write this so people can verbally break others without being an obvious douche.

It takes time to hurt someone mentally.  But one of the quicker ways to break someone is analyzing his or her favorite style of self-expression.  Their mind, when trying to express something, usually chooses to break free of its natural restraints, making the person use the form of expression that would fail them in typical communication.

*Express in this sense means to release inner emotions by communication.

*Communication means any sort of contact that causes a change in previously known information.

For example: Sound.

When people express themselves by talking or screaming or singing, they usually do so because their voice normally fails them.  By using sound in expression, one would try to compensate for the fact that one would otherwise fail to communicate.  In other words, a person who uses his or her voice to express him- or herself is constantly silenced.  Their environment is either hostile or apathetic towards their sounds.  But they hang on because they feel as if they have something important to say.

The weapon:  Let them know they don't have anything to say.  This removes their only hope.  Let them know their voice is unheard, insignificant, pointless drivel.  Also, sound is often linked to aggression.  Aggression makes them unstable.  You should already know their weaknesses through their expression, so it's a matter of pushing the button.

Valentine's Day is coming!

And fuck it.  The reason why we celebrate has nothing to do with what we do on it.  It's about Saint Valentine, who gave his life for his loved ones.  It's not about the great festival of fools who go to the supermarket at 8 in the morning to pick up some generic gift for their loved ones while they plan an expensive dinner.  

It's not the celebration of emotional bribery.

Humanity

I've been wondering about what the difference is between humans and other creatures.  The answer is two words...

Spare time.