Dehumanizing Internet
March 13, 2019 at 11:00 pm
(This post was last modified: March 13, 2019 at 11:02 pm by bennyboy.)
It occurred to me that the internet is making about 80% of us redundant on a pretty basic level.
Where I came from, not that many people thought like me, or expressed ideas like the ones you guys do. That gave me a niche-- just by being a pretty smart guy and knowing how to use words, I had a role.
But there's that same guy in every town, and a hundred of them in every city, and thousands of cities in the world.
I started playing a little game-- I go to any other site, and figure out which guy is the bennboy, or the Khem, or the Little Ricky, or the Shell B or the Losty or the Jorg. They're all there, in slight variations, like archetypal internet gods.
It seems to me that technology hasn't just made certain production jobs irrelevant-- it has made entire categories of thinkers pretty much irrelevant as well, in the sense that you could weed out 99% of the bennyboys out there and still have that category of thinking well enough represented. And at the risk of being mean-- I'm not sure that if this entire forum (or any other particular one) disappeared, that the holographic info that is archetypal humanity would be affected even a little bit.
Am I unique? I always thought so, but now I'm not so sure.
Where I came from, not that many people thought like me, or expressed ideas like the ones you guys do. That gave me a niche-- just by being a pretty smart guy and knowing how to use words, I had a role.
But there's that same guy in every town, and a hundred of them in every city, and thousands of cities in the world.
I started playing a little game-- I go to any other site, and figure out which guy is the bennboy, or the Khem, or the Little Ricky, or the Shell B or the Losty or the Jorg. They're all there, in slight variations, like archetypal internet gods.
It seems to me that technology hasn't just made certain production jobs irrelevant-- it has made entire categories of thinkers pretty much irrelevant as well, in the sense that you could weed out 99% of the bennyboys out there and still have that category of thinking well enough represented. And at the risk of being mean-- I'm not sure that if this entire forum (or any other particular one) disappeared, that the holographic info that is archetypal humanity would be affected even a little bit.
Am I unique? I always thought so, but now I'm not so sure.
