"Encouragement of knowledge before intelligence"
I would say "encouragement of information without discernment".
Collectives tend to suppress information exchange. The internet by its very nature is a wide open information exchange, and with satellite communication, it makes it impossible to completely restrict access to it. Though the internet does not encourage discernment, it doesn't actively restrain it. People can choose to consider carefully what they read or not.
The watchword of the internet is "unique user". Companies make products for internet interface that are highly customizable. Rather than a generic template for everyone, anyone can choose from a bewildering array of looks and feels, and can turn on and off any source of information they choose. Individuality, not collectivism, is most highly prized.
I would disagree with your statement of the internet as "Encouragement of fashion before function". Fashion, clearly, is vital to the experience of the unique user, but if a product or service does not function as expected, a consumer will change brand loyalties quickly.
Let's consider some aspects of the internet:
- Encouragement of short term attention spans
- Encouragement of fashion before function
- Encouragement of quantity before quality
- Encouragement of knowledge before intelligence
Now, let's consider some aspects of socialism:
- Discouragement of long term investment
- Discouragement of understanding why before what
- Discouragement of individuals before collectives
- Discouragement of analytic before historical judgment
Therefore, will the internet socialize the West?
I've little respect for the opinions of anyone who thinks that socialism discourages long term investment. Investing in **** like health care, education, national infrastructure and a relatively clean environment is ENTIRELY about reaping long term benefits by maximizing our society's human capital.
First of all, suggesting that a culturally normalized dislike of long term investments arises from individual short attention spans it a huge leap. The psychological processes that produce a moral/habit like "caring for long term investments" are more varied and elaborate than simply have a short attention span. Plenty of people with attention deficit are nonetheless effective and even visionary planners, because they possess perspective, intuition, or intelligence that nonetheless gives them insight into the future.
I agree with your evaluations of the Internet broadly (although the middle two are somewhat sketchy), but your evaluations of socialism are extremely lopsided and one-dimensional.
Let's consider some aspects of the internet:
- Encouragement of short term attention spans
Let's consider some aspects of the internet:
- Encouragement of short term attention spans
- Encouragement of fashion before function
- Encouragement of quantity before quality
- Encouragement of knowledge before intelligence
Now, let's consider some aspects of socialism:
- Discouragement of long term investment
- Discouragement of understanding why before what
- Discouragement of individuals before collectives
- Discouragement of analytic before historical judgment
Therefore, will the internet socialize the West?
I don't think "socialize" necessarily relates to Socialism. I do have a current observation from personal experience and old age. I am a member of several fraternal organizations and we are always seeking new members. We are talking about "social groups" and in years past, it was stylish, popular, meaningful, status symbol, whatever, and participating in the fraternal social activities was considered important. In this time, it is extremely difficult to attract new membership and we have tried to analyze the reasons for that, and have discussed this collectively and our conclusion is that electronic entertainment is the culprit. People no longer need "person to person" social skills, but do everything with the keyboard. It is high quality entertainment, amusement, whatever, but it absolutely discourages the X generation from social participation. I had pondered if it might be intentional mind manipulation and concluded that would be a little too conspiratorial. Anyways, my conclusion is that the Internet discourages socialization. I'd appreciate any comments relating to what I have stated because it's not an idle thought but a continuing dilemna as regards attracting fraternal memberships.
Capitalism's refusal to offer paid job training is discouragement of long-term investment. As far as the individual is concerned, neither of these systems has anything to offer him. But you're right in the fact that a copycat medium like the Internet does socialize-capitalize. A typical error required to participate on the Internet is that there is any difference to the individual between socialism and capitalism.Let's consider some aspects of the internet:
- Encouragement of short term attention spans
- Encouragement of fashion before function
- Encouragement of quantity before quality
- Encouragement of knowledge before intelligence
Now, let's consider some aspects of socialism:
- Discouragement of long term investment
- Discouragement of understanding why before what
- Discouragement of individuals before collectives
- Discouragement of analytic before historical judgment
Therefore, will the internet socialize the West?
The type of investment you're talking about is similarly socializing. People with ADD who carry out long term investment liquidate the culture required for investment to happen. Good examples of this are information technology, public roads, biotech, and advertising. All of these things give people access to resources where they don't have to appreciate the thought processes required to invent said goods. Instead, people become spoiled, and in turn, they abuse future inventive personalities because their inventiveness is unnecessary for society to get along. Future inventors become expected to work hard rather than work smart, but because they're not built, they're mocked instead and expected to conform with the system.
Capitalism's refusal to offer paid job training is discouragement of long-term investment.
As far as the individual is concerned, neither of these systems has anything to offer him. But you're right in the fact that a copycat medium like the Internet does socialize-capitalize. A typical error required to participate on the Internet is that there is any difference to the individual between socialism and capitalism.
You mean conform to the capitalist system of indentured-servitude professional education and the grand larceny of corporate patents, which make the inventor the slave of the investor. You champion creative minds, thinking that your cheerleading will get them on your side, but you offer the same raw deal that socialists preach. "From each according to his abilities, to each according to his greed" is the capitalist limp comeback. Neither side offers "To each according to his abilities." Dozens of times I've tried to get that across on the Internet, but because it doesn't fit any of the required choices, people are not ready for new ideas here. The only reason the rulers allowed this puppet show was that they were confident that they had dumbed-down people enough to risk it. All we have here is a clash of cults, a face-off of fads, and a specious spectrum.
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