how the internet works

actually, the title is deceptive, unless you pay attention to the underlying concepts and possibly the format or even simply what is happening in the text and subtext and context and words, even...

perhaps this is more how personal RealTime™ blogging works...

ok, so let's do this thing... first, catching up (sort of)... this would have been a very special day of profound introspection and major catharsis if i wasn't so busy doing other things, but life provided all sorts of distractions and even fun this weekend, mostly (the constant chatter of all-night Gilmore Girls marathons with the bright florescent kitchen light on for no reason (other than maybe a fear of the dark or forgetfulness and lack of financial responsibility, cuz it definitely does not enhance the TV watching experience... yes, there is a TV and DVD player in her room... not too spoiled, aye?... just like the Gilmore girls, isn't it ironic, dontcha think... my frustration may be compounded by the lack of functionality of the laptop headphone jack, so there's no escape from the loud ever so cliche american mostly meaningless constant clever banter), and i pretty much forget what happened on Friday...

i suppose i could check my schedule...

did you notice the irony piled on irony in this entry so far?... i suppose the flippant machine-gun banter is slipping in between the bleary-eyed stupor that i woke up into...

oh yeah (hmmmm, the calendar did help... i'm not sure what to make of that), the game night... much fun with strangers... I sense not much potential for individual personal bonding as eye contact was relatively non existent, but definitely fun and hopefully the group will expand and become even more fun... it'll happen again... as will the film group from last night (in fact, the film group is partying tomorrow night)...

and i did something on the web too, inspired by pernickety and thoughts about the internet and connecting and sociology and who knows what else... i may have simply been in the mood to explore the multiple sides of the concept... this internet blogging social concept is on my mind lately, after all, what with meetup effecting my social life offline again... so anyway, these are the thoughts (and thanks for the inspiration, again)...

These internet times we are living in, I am having a weird feeling about it. There's a craze about the odnoklassniki.ru website now in Russia; it's a website where you can register and then find your old classmates, work mates, etc. So all the sudden people who haven't seen each other or heard of each other in 10, 20, 30, or even 50 years, get in contact.

Most of the time, it's rather sad, because your lives have gone their own, separate directions, so except saying, "Oh my, it's been so long! I would never recognize you if we ever met on the street!" the conversation usually doesn't go further. It's very exciting in a way, and you start thinking of all the possible people you can dig up from the cemetery of your past, but it also seems in a way wrong to me.

Look at it this way, if you didn't have internet, naturally you would never come in contact with these people. And how many times people have a tendency to make an impact on our lives, become our destiny? So this is in a way artificially editing your destiny, your fate. You were not supposed to stay in contact with these people, but through this internet media you can now make it possible.

You might argue, but maybe it is your destiny, to find them through internet and thus to come in contact with them.

But so many people are now coming in contact with people otherwise they would never. So life paths are getting mixed up.

To me, it is seems like genetically modified food. Genetically modified destiny.
To contradict myself, yes, I am also registered on that website, talking to my old classmates from school in Moscow to whom I haven't spoken since I was 8 years old.

yeah, so that's what i got to thinking:

i can see the genetic engineering concept... but then, everything is changed by mere observation...

the question may be where to stop, for the moment humans stood erect and looked around at the world with some measure of conscious awareness, the natural order was effected by human influence...

what if fire was never discovered?... can we see cooked food an unnatural act?... what if the telescope was never invented... would we still consider the world flat and the center of the universe?... what if the telephone was never invented... how many people who would never have come into contact met due to the modern age of communications... jet planes... and soon, space travel... what if we meet aliens and take astronomical leaps in knowledge, awareness, technology, and being?... what if we advance to teleportation or telepathy, how many contacts would we find then that we'd have never have had by staying in our cave? :)

so we can see the internet as simply the latest advance in the influence of humanity on it's own destiny that began around the time the first human stood up and looked around and wondered what he/she was doing there...

and here i sit past 4am wondering why i am still awake when i've slept so little this week, as usual... oh, but these thoughts you inspired might not exist if i did not wander here just now...

i, for one, am happy for most of the influences humanity is having on everything...

i did say most...

thank you for your influence :)