To use the words ‘Tribe’ and ‘Internet’ in the same sentence never would have occurred to me even a year ago. And now it strikes me as an almost natural phenomenon.
In warming-up to an appreciation for ‘micro-content’ I’m seeing the picture change right before my eyes. It’s exciting to see, more than just outrageous behavior and self-absorbed megalomaniacs. With a positive side to the net, we as a species may in fact still have a chance. There’s real opportunity here, and, room for the balance of minds to collaborate and cohabitate in cyberspace. And the tribes man, "they are a formin'". ‘Like’ attracts ‘like’. Thank you too, the ‘filtering’ process. That has made the big difference in focusing information. It’s even fun; those with a specified interest can easily find similar thinking communities, even nations of people with paraelle persutes. There are groups out there that communicate for hours on end, relating solely through the keyboard and mouse, never meeting, yet they have this commonality, this event that connects their allied interests. It is tribal in the sense that social groups form and interact with scores of things, from a fundamental or multifaceted game to a thought, or opinion, or belief. These mind clusters move and shift, ebbing and flowing almost organically as the evolution of the Internet advances.
Distinguished by the Yin and Yang of minds, the gray area is what separates where you and I might fall.
So, where do you fit in all this techno progression my elevated friend? Where is your head? How do you interact on the Net, out in the epic web between craft and perversion?
Sunday, September 9, 2007
Is The Internet Organic?
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