The internet wasn’t built for that. Nor does the technology they’re releasing (or waiting on the pipeline) mirror your sentiments. It was always meant to be an echo chamber with pre approved voices guiding the masses much like we saw with celebrities. You may doubt that is so; but bear in mind, most content creators never make a product. They’re wholly dependent on sponsorships and affiliate income. YouTube always allows them to build before pulling the plug.
The system isn‘t going to change because we’re not charge. We have to learn how to thrive in spite of it. But don’t take my word for it. Here’s a
glimpse of your tomorrow. Don’t say I didn’t warn you. ;-)
Ah, yes, more fear. We’re all pre-approved cogs in the machine and no one is truly benevolent. If I have an independent voice, I’m one of the programmers who is controlling everyone.
The difference is very simple: if nobody listens to me, I’m going to be okay. There’s no need to resort to violence to force my opinion on others, or arrogantly presume I deserve to run the show. When you do that, you push people away, and too much loneliness is uncomfortable and depressing.
I feel both of those extremes in my soul, though, because the system tried to force me to one side or the other, make me into a sheeple or force me to become a criminal wolf (and they blame me, and they blame me, and they blame me). Nah. “And you’re self-deceived! You have no integrity!” Panic, that is. And who am I threatening?
The truth is that, on this website, and probably just in general, I am a blundering fool with much to learn. It is best not to confuse a turtle for a wolf or sheep. And now I think I have overused the turtle example, but it makes so much sense. Literal programming is excruciating for me, emotionally speaking, because I do not want to control other people. It’s an open wound. I just want to bring them truth, and if God’s grace allows it, point them in the right direction.
With that being said, the fear you’ve expressed is common, once people find out I cannot truly be controlled. What they don’t realize is that I don’t have the power to control them either, and I don’t care to have it. I think this attitude is more common than you might think, because I discovered firsthand in writing college how limited my influence was and how much I was talking to myself. The path of truth almost cannot be heard through wolf pride and sheeple fear, and it is subject to heavy criticism from both. A writer cannot make people think a certain way, but fear can.
Masters/programmers are also afraid, they are afraid of other masters and they are afraid of the sheeple rebelling against them. I’m just tired and sick of all the fear, and I walk free, alone. They fear me because I don’t listen to them and I shatter the picture of pride they have built.
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The internet wasn’t built for any of this, it started as a government communication science project that turned into a faulty research database turned campy entertainment enterprise turned money making machine for entertainment and educational sales. The invention of the forum runs along the spectrum from entertainment to education to social support. The Internet is an organic thing that takes on a life of its own as people add to it. Instead, the internet is just a lens that reflects our collective condition back to us.
And sure, get out on social media and YouTube and online video is just the same phenomenon of celebrity, because celebrities do video and music. It’s just part of how that medium works, an immutable thing that hasn’t changed just because we’re doing online instead of literal TV. Blogs are just another tabloid to them. We’ve just unified tabloids, news media, education and entertainment in one amorphous living organism, and confused half the people who have to wade through the chaos. Celebrities are trees, not the whole forest.
Anyway, I may have more to say here, but it needs to wait for me to get some more sleep.