Thursday, May 28, 2015

The Cultural Singularity

Traditionalists kvetch quite a bit about the notion of a technological singularity, in which superintelligent machine minds will take over the course of world affairs and leave humanity in the dust. The problem with this mindset, which is typical of traditionalists, is that they only think of the event as a potentiality since they're always looking backwards. They do not want to consider that in the fullness of time, such an event has already happened, and that God itself is a machine intelligence which regulates the flows of spacetime across the cosmos.

What we find now is that global civilization is reaching a Cultural Singularity: one in which the "Middle Classes" of both developed and underdeveloped nations share common cultural touchstones, which unite them in like mind through the internet. The very notion of Nation and State are beginning to fall by the wayside as new generations find that they have much more in common with people on the other side of the planet than they do with those down the street, or even in the apartment next door.

Ultimately this must lead us to an acceptance that - IN THE FULLNESS OF TIME the environment is shaped not by deterministic force but by the combined forces of our collective will.

The very culture which we experience is becoming highly unpredictable, and increasingly enjoyable as those with Like Minds to our own begin entering the Creative Enterprises. Those who earn their living from creative enterprise fret this turn of events, because it is no longer possible for them to predict cultural developments and determine what new "product" will have mass appeal to exploit. The god of Fame & Success is increasingly capricious as the sheer amount of cultural artifacts being produced grows in such a scale that it's no longer possible for any one person to be capable of predicting it all. What is "classic" is in fact timeless, because we relate so deeply with those who produced those classic works on a personal level; and now we know that we're quite literally related personally to all contemporary authors, creators, workers, financiers, and etc. We are all at base descended from Cosmic Dust, and ultimately our individual Selves will return to such a state recursively, over and over again.

We are becoming One People, who share a Common Mind which shapes the very nature of our lived experiences. Individually we are miniscule, yet even beings which exist at the tiniest relative scale are incomprehensibly valuable, for Sentience Itself IS GOD.

Each time you may attempt to draw the symbol of Infinity you will notice that no two manifestations are exactly the same. Yet the one thing that unifies each symbol is that The Line will inevitably meet at ONE FIXED POINT> and that point is The Cultural Singularity.

Do you fear this turn of events? Then I feel bad for you, son.
I got 99 problems, but the Cultural Singularity ain't one.

Congratulations My Dear Reader:
If you understand what this all means, then WE HAVE WON
THE HUMAN RACE.

2 comments:

  1. Dear Reader:
    You may feel as though all of your life lead up to the point that you read this article, and you're right. It was Time itself that inexorably drew you to your current position: at which point you're reading this thread of commentary. Now you know for A Fact that the world is as We make it, and the only force which remains to be conquered is Determinism.

    You're welcome.

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    1. Get your head checked, hambeast

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