Down With the Bastards
Humanity is a network that will only ever grow more complex and integrated as time goes by, people need to start getting used to it. Now.
We live in a world in radical transition. Like it or not the availability of information and human connection down to the minute individual level has achieved a point of saturation where the world itself really begins to change, because we have begun to change. More specifically it has begun to change us.
The world into which we have begun to transition is one which allows us, demands of us, to challenge our most fundamental assumptions. We cannot hold onto tribalistic beliefs when we experience empirical information counter to a tribal narrative.
For the last several millennia the entire world and all the empires which have ever existed have not had the capability which we can hold in our hands, right now. The ability to reach out to whomever and wherever we want and see for ourselves empirically what once we had to accept subjectively as second hand information.
Empirical information is something we experience directly for ourselves, all other information is subjective. Has we move through a network gathering information much of that is subjective but the experience itself is empirical, including communication directly with other individuals. This is key because we are free to learn empirically what another person or groups belief structure or goals are, we no longer are relegated to only ever having third party access to information. We don’t have to ask our friends what someone else thinks or wants when we are free to ask them ourselves.
It will take time for generations to be born into a world were such possibilities exist before the true potential of it is realized, but the journey none the less has already begun.
Where we begin to change is when people start to want to challenge those fundamental assumptions we derive from second hand information. It is a function of old world tribalism to create amd protect fundamental assumptions about the world and those within it in order to keep the group cohesive. Often challenging those fundamental assumptions is to risk alienation within the group and this is not by accident.
It is to keep control over the group and exert influence by design of the very bastards who most directly profit from the tribalism of the group itself. This is an old world model and is not sustainable in a highly networked information environment like the one which has begun to unfold before us. In the old world challenging our fundamental assumptions was not only difficult it could be dangerous. Now it is almost impossible not to challenge them, it is the lack of will or the abundance of fear that drives people to irrationality to protect their tribal beliefs when just a few clicks can give you all the knowledge you want to contrast and compare.
It’s the bastards who prevent the world from seeing it’s own potential and profit from tribalism who through their own inability to accept and adapt to a radical connected human network not bound by bridges and roads that are going down. Who maintain rigid tribal structures when so much more is already possible.
It’s not a matter of revolution but a question of evolution.
Of society. Of information. Of networks. Of people and how we learn. Of how we are connected and to whom. As that changes so do we. It’s an evolution of consciousness, of awareness that doesn’t have a physical manifestation like bipedal legs or an opposable thumb, it has a manifestation in the way we treat each other and the world which is created from it.
It’s the bastards who hold us fast to that which has long been before by not questioning their own fundamental assumptions who are brought down one by one to the inevitability of human information and social evolution.
We will begin to enter the next chapter of human history in earnest when they do.