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We're All Niggaz To The Man
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The Anarchives Volume 2 Issue 4
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The Anarchives Published By
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The Anarchives The Anarchy Organization
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--/\-- Synthetic Conscious
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/ / \ \ Evolution Of The Machine Age
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\/ \/ by Jay Terpstra
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"Obviously they [computers] can be made to simulate
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the process of consciousness, just as our electric global
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networks now begin to simulate the condition of our central
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nervous system" (Marshall McLuhan, 1964). Not that cyber
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technologies are evil, but rather their immense capacity
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as a means to totalitarian domination is a danger to human
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kind. During the last great Industrial Revolution, the
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factory subverted human to machine. The tools or media
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of the factory economy were run by hand/eye coordination.
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During what McLuhan calls industrial automation or cybernation,
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humans have been subverted to data banks. In this process,
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humans make cyber humans. Derrick de Kerckhove, Director of the
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McLuhan centre says within a decade a large majority of people
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will be familar with artificial intelligence (1995). With the
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future technologies working at the speed of light and promising
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a domineering global totality, it is crucial to keep a human
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check through the storm. "Be mindful about how the tool shapes
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the task" (Ursula Franklin, 1995).
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"The old ground rules of point-to-point logic will break down.
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And holism will then emerge as a dominant form of thinking,
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governed by a considerably smaller group of management elite"
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(McLuhan, 1989, 121). "Information workplaces" employ mainly
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"processors" and concentrators", both of which move data (Ibid, 105).
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Losing private identities to a collective whole gathered through
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technology means greater capacity for commercialsm. Horizontally
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infinite, electric technology can round up masses of consumers
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for conscious to conscious indoctrination. "Caught up in the
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hybrid energy released by video technologies, he will be presented
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with a chimerical "reality" that involves all his senses at a
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distended pitch, a condition as addictive as any known drug"
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(McLuhan, 1989, 97). Electric technologies have obsolesced
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specialism (Ibid, 96). The product, which is already the Christ
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of consumer civilization emerges stronger and more dominating
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than before because instant result has overtaken step-by-step
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process. The process is now the many results.
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Ursula franklin calls the information landscape civic landfill
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(1995). Information garbage serves the advantage of a capitalist
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system. The industrial revolution replaced humans with machines
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and the information revolution replaces mechanical machines
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with conscious machines. Capitalism accumulates by nature and
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expands by necessity. Electric technologies enable this to occur
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at the speed of light obsolescing nature. McLuhan explains this
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process to be the independence of space and simultaneousness of
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time (McLuhan, 1964, 301). These technologies are as McLuhan
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states, right hemisphere technologies that are holistic as opposed
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to sequential. However capitalism is a brute left hemisphere force
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that dominates the interaction of the right and left hemispheres,
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ensuring the authoritarian outcome of what is for now horizontally
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accessable technologies. In other words in a capitalist economy
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the vertical structure of the control of capital dominates the
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electronic environment. The survival of liberal-capitalist states
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is the result of bull-shit or propaganda through forms of
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doublespeak and gargle. The Eastern block was too overt.
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Cybernation is never ending instant access or interaction
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with a myriad of knowledge. Just as the value of the dollar
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gave baseball artificial turf, concrete and retractable roofs,
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so will cyber consumers be convinced to buy big bucks worth of
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virtual reality. The fastest growing industry in the U.S. is
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plastic surgery. Artificial identity enhances the domination
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of capitalists who always look at resource over environment.
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"His body will remain in one place but his mind will
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float out into the electronic void, being everywhere at once
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in the data bank... He loses his sense of private identity
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because electronic perceptions are not related to place"
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(McLuhan 1989, 97). Are split personalities (natural ones
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and cyber ones) healthy or will it lead to what McLuhan calls
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the roboticization of civilization? Beneath all the clutter
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and chatter of this intensified technological era is the grip
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of imperial hegemony. Franklin urges people to be critical of
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those controlling the technologies because abundant
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information is largely irrelevant. To a politician and
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businessman that makes talking and selling easier and less
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risky. With abundant knowledge, ignorance is no longer a
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defence but ill-intention is part of the present
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political-economic landscape (Franklin, 1995).
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"What knowledge there is will be available to all. So,
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in that sense, everybody will be nobody. Everyone will be
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involved in robotic role-playing including those few elitists
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who interpret or manage large-scale data patterns and thus
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control the functions of a speed-of-light society" (McLuhan,
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1989, 129). In the age of information, "human hardware" is
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obsolesced (Ibid, 127). A balanced human world on the other
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hand is body/mind and place/time united in natural
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form and progression.
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The highway is for gamblers, better use your sense.
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Take what you have gathered from coincidence.
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The empty-handed painter from your street
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is drawing crazy patterns on your sheet.
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The sky too is folding under you,
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and its all over now baby blue" (Bob Dylan, 1965).
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TAO keeps rockin'
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