An Internal Conflict "Passion" is a difficult thing to find. If it were easy, the internet would not be littered with content on how to find it (this essay being one), and you wouldn’t have a non-fiction bestseller coming out every year that tackles this topic. One way to figure...
Introduction: The Effect of Technology The Internet has had a tremendous democratising effect on communication. All technological leapfrogs tend to have such an effect - they radically expand access to things previously reserved for a select few. Before the invention of the Printing Press, for example, only the elite—the clergy...
"Passion" is a difficult thing to find.
If it were easy, the internet would not be littered with content on how to find it (this essay being one), and you wouldn’t have a non-fiction bestseller coming out every year that tackles this topic.
One way to figure it out is to observe your intrinsic motivations.
What do you like doing for the sake of it? What do you actually care about when no one's looking?
While reflecting on these myself, I found conflicts.
Even for the kind of work I enjoyed doing, my motivation to complete a project would fluctuate like a roller coaster for reasons I couldn’t explain.
If I tried to brute force my... (read 1192 more words →)
Technology democratizes power.
The masses, thus liberated, bring their mass conscience to hegemonic space.
Thus begins the degradation of culture.
Because technology democratizes power.
But does not democratize taste.
What does?
Humans seek Design. Or at least a sign of design.
Man can barely behold Great beauty or Great tragedy, unless he explains them as works of Intention. That is how superstition is born. That is how conspiracy is born.
It is easier (on the heart) to explain a dysfunctional world as a result of evil than as a result of dysfunction.
For dysfunction posits the existence of Unknowns. That is horrifying to a species that is still mostly an animal, and only partly Man.
"Whatever moves us and affects us, must be the work of someone."
~Thus speaketh fear.
But this is also how Agency is born (as a concept).
"Whatever moves us and affects us, must be the... (read more)
The Internet has had a tremendous democratising effect on communication. All technological leapfrogs tend to have such an effect - they radically expand access to things previously reserved for a select few.
Before the invention of the Printing Press, for example, only the elite—the clergy and nobility—could print or disseminate written works.
Electricity, similarly, democratized automation. Earlier, only certain industries or the wealthy could command labor and mechanical energy. Electricity made lighting, heating, and mechanization available to ordinary homes and small businesses.
The steam engine democratized mobility and production, and the microchip democratized computation.
What technology essentially leads to is class dissolution, and it does so not by destructive means like redistribution... (read 1687 more words →)