The Digital Collective

The Internet has been making me feel trapped within an informational matrix of limited variables. I feel trapped, the way that TV used to make me feel trapped, usually causing me to just get up and walk away. I've noticed a subtle change of direction in the information stream, it's a strangely responsive environment - more so than ever. It's like an Akashic Record, manifested into the physical realm.

Catagorizing Us

Like TV, the internet speaks directly to our specific genre interests, categorizing us into certain sub-groups, all based on link clicking.

Enough of this interested button pushing allows "The System" to label us by personality types, and apply them to geographical zones, and political bias, religious beliefs, etc. What I think has happened is, this oracle of information has in a sense been re-modified to understand these groups individually. I'm sure that each of these "groups", weather they're "girly girls who like pink stuff", or "conservative christian soccer moms" etc., are all categorized, and filed into their corresponding file boxes.

Steping back to see the greater picture, one would have to respect that the Internet is a genius system to govern the mass populous by. There are millions of people in the world, how could the "powers that be" keep track of all of these people? Surely, the the numbers are multiplying and things could go haywire very fast.

On a personal level, I could never say that I welcome Big Brother with open arms, because the concept of having my entire life's history in a single file is quite intrusive, but I also seek to make sense of the things that bother me, as this is a part of life we all must learn to get comfortable with. This new "System" is here to stay, and the corporations who own the "Hubs" will only monopolize, with degrees of seperation growing more narrow year after year.

Say we have maybe 200 or so different "types" of people. This is a wild guess of course. And what constitutes a "type" of person? Is it personality type? Preference? Social status? Financial class? Or all of the above? Is it a likely that which ever configurations fit together most often, constitute a "type"? For example, are kids from the suburbs more likely to DVR reality shows? Are 18 year old boys who listen to Hip-Hop and drive Japanese cars likely to subscribe to Maxim Magazine? These types may be likely, andthere are probably millions who fit the description. But what about the square pegs, like myself? Normally, a girl like me should be the last in any of these categories to google Extraterrestrial Phenomena as often as I do. (as embarrassing as that is to admit.)

Inner Workings, and The Group Mind

The genius part about the way this digital system tabulates society is this; the "Web" and it's operators, like spiders at the center, with all test-groups on their respective strands at arms reach, can tug where they want, when they want, interlacing one with another, and presto: you've got the thoughts and emotions of the populous fully contained. That is, assuming everyone is sleep-walking in waking-state.

It's easy to categorize groups these days, with egoism being congratulated, and masked with words like "success". Individualism, as special and important as it is, ultimately breeds group mentality. People are lost with out ego-identifications, and grasp onto ideologies and make them their own.

The "individual" who thinks he has realized "who" he should be, gravitates towards a "group" in order to make sense of his new identity. So, to reiterate - without the cloak of the "individual", there are no "groups". The aim I think is (and I am guessing this may be part of the ideology of the elite) that if they could hand these impressionable "groups" of people a collective-identity (through the mainstream of information and entertainment), these groups will keep on the same path which they were predicted to stay on. It's simple control, but also human nature.

It is our nature now after thousands of years of living in structured societies. These ego-identifications are bred into our basic psychological coding. With the exception of say... North Korea, where they are like one single-minded creature, unto themselves. (Images of the "Mass Games" come to mind, but I gathered that the Mass Games are also a metaphorical art performance really, symbolizing the unity of their collective nature.)

Regardless of the elements that generally make up a "type" of person, and regardless of the many devices we use to push the information into our personal life file, I am sure that we are only in a stage of experimentation. This system, in all of it's shiny compact, cutting edge glory, can only perfect itself over time. My guess is that these "experimental stages" may last well into the next 20 years, and even then only the first chapter will have unfolded before we truly begin to settle into it.

In any case, all that we see in front of us, the room we sit in, the history of our lives which we carry with us like a metaphysical ID card, as well as the future we project by creating thought-form bubbled intentions, spewing rainbows of energies onto other souls, allowing us to create an atmosphere full of ideas and information, egoic validations, pollutant negative thought patterns, as well as take a smile pass it down goodness, it's all really just part of nature. God that was a long sentence.

The Akashic Record Manifested Into the 3d Realm

Nature created the stars, created us, and created this strangely alive projectile of our thoughts, desires, curiosities, and an often blind search for our own self-identities, called "The Internet". Could it be a possibility, that this technological universe is bred from the very nature of earth's reality, in it's own an attempt to understand it's counter-parts - like a baby discovering his own hands?

Could this Digital Age be an evolved form of consciousness peering at us from a distant timeline realizing it's self through it's own systematic investigations, thus displaying an infinite stream of information, like the infinity of facing mirrors? Is this what caused the Akashic to duplicate it's self, and chose to sit just under our fingertips here in this 3d universe?

If it is the Akashic, is this the reason language and literacy is so important to humanity? Words, letters, symbols, and numbers are magic, and come from a dimension which has evolved it's self into it's very own ascension. The realm which literacy has chosen to ascend is a digital one, and is finally able to start talk back to us. "Hitchhikers Guide" comes to mind when I think of this "Evolution of Litteracy" for lack of a better term.

"Deep Thought", from "Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy":