Writer, Agilist, Elder Geek
Maybe we need a “Confusing” tag to the Core Four.
There is Stan Lee Signature Cologne, “Nuff Said.”
Yeah. I know.
Also there will soon be Steve Savage cologne. It smells like tea and Japanese Curry. You get it by visiting my apartment and having tea and Japanese Curry.
Actually, I think this is another sign of Geek Normalization. Just a manly-smelling one.
– Steven
Overall, I can’t say I agree with the idea of the “Cult of the Amateur” by Andrew Keen, a book with the humble subtitle “How Internet Is Killing Our culture.” I don’t think the internet is killing our culture (we were doing fine on our own). I don’t feel a read-write culture is necessarily bad, though he does. I’m not worried over remixes. He did cleverly hit on the idea that some undermining of jobs could have vast economic impact. But in the end, his concern that amateurs of one stripe or another are unfairly lionized and squeeze out/exploit/ignore “real” talent was an important point, but also one he missed at the same time.
So I think he’s right and wrong. Let me clarify.
That Superior Feeling, Serdar Yegulalp, on the limits of Immortality and Immortalism
I see only two ways for this to be possible. The first is the one Steven and I have explored before, where the resulting life is not life at all, but a stasis that we can call life only at the great cost of pretending that nothing was ever lost in the first place. The second method is where the costs of living are abolished only by way of force and dominion over others, exercised not just once but unceasingly.
Serdar’s response to my post on “The Hell of Heaven” is based on Barrows Dunham’s Man Against Myth – a book I have not read, but clearly need to, as he explored dangerous myths left after WWII. Some of them sound all too familiar, as he explores a world where a few men tried to sacrifice many for godhood/racial godhood. These are just like what I see in the quest for what I call Simplistic Immortality – “me immortal,” which often fit Serdars second method of immortalism in the above paragraph.
The rest of the post subtly explores the repercussions of the quest for Simplistic Immortality, and that eventually all bills come due and all plans collide with other’s plans. Serdar handles this with great delicacy. I on the other hand am willing to sweep subtlety aside to state things bluntly:
The quest for Simplistic Immortality, that of “I stay I and no one can affect it” makes every person, every phenomena, and the entire universe either the Immortalist’s enemy or slave.