OK, the fella masquerading as Thomas on this blog - halt..Tell us us what u have done with the real thomas that we knew!!!! I had to read your post kidu like 3 more times befor eit sunk in vizuri haha.. at some point after like the third reading when i finally began to see clearly.. I was like hmm this is interesting..somehow i feel like i've read it somewhere before..(haha yeah like 3 times on this same blog!!). OK that should tell you one of 2 things..Either you have become a prolific writer, well read spontanious young fella or I have been spending too much time on my balcony sipping on Corona's after my exams were done like a week ago.uuuh not quite the conondrum u were expecting eh..Mad respect for the guitar..I had the same epiphany, only I think my motivations were slightly different..lets face it...guitar players get laid more often than average bums like me...
Aaaanyway. As Kui will so quickly attest..i have been quite intrigued with the subject matter you brought up.. I bored her mindless about it like a year ago on a phone conversation in my terse anticipattion of the Matrix:reloaded. I was jus very jazzed at the entire philosphy of the Warchoski brothers and their approach to "simulating" their idea of the Matrix. So it seems they Picked a whole lot form this french author of yours, specifically on his third simularca,..yaani one modeling information, with the aim of total control. I'm sure I'm not the only one who feels like there is this 4th dimension that we are unconscious of: one that is is directly related to this physical one that we see, one that cues in on our reason for being. Plato so vividly illustrates it in his allegory, whereas I more simply visaulize it as the spiritual dimension to our lives: the invisible war for our Souls. WE are living in armageddon, daily; a fight against good and evil. Only we are not caught in the crossfire, we are the soldiers. Our lives(physical/material/visible) and the choices we make are the ultimate simulation: of this war.
So you ask what the future holds eh..Much as I hate to appear a modern day soothsayer, a doomsday conspirisist, I have to say we are headed in that direction(converging to the third simulacra), and I'm not so sure its a great idea. I think about the world we live in today..the information revolution they call it. All the simularca that you mentioned..both 1 and 2 depend on instant access to reliable information. Atleast, we have reached an era where that dependancy can be met, a la the internet. Now look a little closer.. The technical nature of the interconnectivity if the net is very unwelcoming to totalitarian control. SO basically the only way to control/harness this free flow of information is yeild & direct the need for this information. It is interesting to note that this is the sole intent Search engines today. Knowledge is power, so the old adage goes...I say COntrol of this knowledge is the where this poer lies. Google(yes i am going there again) have complete control here. I dont know anyone out there who's written papers/done research who could survive without google today..Lord knows how they managed sijui 20 years ago. Where do you go for your information? Thats who youll be paying your allegiance to in a few years.
I see a future where machines/software/computers will be so well aligned with the user's need that it there will be no real "search for info". Even with Googles ingenius, 'democratic' site ranking methodology(where a page is ranked according to how many other pages on the web link to it), it still takes some time long to find EXACTLY what you want, for those of us who've not majored in Information/Library sciences. Major research is already going into making these search engine's "smarter", meaning that they will will sort of have an idea that if I search for the word "cougar" i will mean I'm interested in a sugar mummy to pay my school fees and not some wild cat in the jungle.
Future of the world aside,.. I couldnt but help notice how beautiful nature is. Today I woke up, and to my suprise i saw something outside my window that was not there the previus day: Lush green buds had sprouted from the tree outside my window. I continued to observe..Every single bud on every single branch on every single simarlar tree on my street, in a fluid uniformity unparralelled by any manmade system, had sprouted. Not only that, but on the first day that it the Sun had decided to show its face upon Montreal streets..It was great..I felt as if Nature had consipred to make me smile this morning, the sun gleaming on those ordinary mellow green buds. If such sweet synchrony alone does not coax you of a supreme yarn tying up this fabric..I guess you will have to look closer.
Word is on the streets Wangu is about to Jion our lil community??? where is tha girl!!!! someone done got me excited already! Show your face woman!!
Guys, Its been Real.
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