(March 13, 2019 at 11:00 pm)bennyboy Wrote: 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.
Kudos to you for discovering that you aren't unique. In my experience, the more certain that a person is that they are an independent thinker, the more precisely their thinking aligns with other like minded people. You know, the hippies were just such radical thinkers who all dressed sort of the same way, said the same things, and totally freed their minds, man! People were noticing this quite awhile before the internet, but the internet has made the phenomenon far more apparent.
We do not inherit the world from our parents. We borrow it from our children.
