Showing posts with label censorship. Show all posts
Showing posts with label censorship. Show all posts

Monday, September 9, 2013

Thoughts on censored Internet and the book "Feed"

I am reading M.T. Anderson's book "Feed" right now, and I love it so much! No spoilers please!

But what I want to talk about is the concept of an internal feed in your head, which is what this book is based around. Instead of computers or tablets external to your body, you have it in your head at all times so you are able to look things up just like that. 

I hate this idea! The Internet is so easy to censor rather than a book, so if we all learned everything we knew fom one large database, sure we would all know the same things but knowing things wouldn't be interesting anymore because there would be no fight to the facts, no bias, everything is just one way.

How boring would life be if historians didn't have to look at several sources, detecting biases and looking for the truth in past events? Just having the censored info there of whatever your government wants you to think or know.

If it's censored by the government, it is of course 10x worse, but still, in general, having some form of feed just internally does make things convenient but convenience can reach a certain point in which individual thought is ignored and life becomes super boring.

I would rather fight people with opposite beliefs to me on the Internet than have a Feed telling everyone what our beliefs are and what the answers are to our questions. I want to answer my own questions, not read biased answers on an external Internet or an internal feed.

All of this government censor stuff really freaks me out because you honestly don't know 100% what the government is doing and what they know. Everything seems fine, but you honestly never know. This is why things like wiki-leaks are our best friend. 

Whenever I read books like "Feed" by M.T. Anderson or even "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley I always get super paranoid, which I hate, but I love books like this. It's fascinating to think about this kind of stuff.

I think technology will go to far once censorship has taken over everything and information and education are perfectly standardized. This is when society will have reached its breaking point. 

What do you think about having an internal "feed" in your head?

Monday, May 27, 2013

They are just words

I'm not ignorant.

I am aware of the historical and social implications of the word nigger.
I am aware of the historical and social implications of the word cunt.

But you know what? They are sounds that come from mouths. If I just say the word nigger, with no context and not directed at a person, does it really have meaning? I suppose so. But I just think it is so weird that a sound that comes through one's mouth can have so many implications, societally.

Even though I know the word bitch is used more carefree than cunt, I honestly don't see the difference. One is just hated a lot more than another one.

I don't want to be screamed at every time I say cunt, so I don't say cunt.

I just don't understand how some sounds that come out of some mouths are so terrible. I say fuck quite a bit, and I just don't see it. I don't know.

I think this is just me trying to be all non-conformist. I want to say that it shouldn't matter if I am at a fancy dinner party, and I let the f bomb fly. It doesn't matter to me, honestly. But then again, I am probably not going to swear at some fancy event, or at least consciously.

I hate censorship so much. Socially, it is stupid. It really is. I would rather see random people naked on the street all the time, then never be able to say the word fuck again. And I really don't want to see nudists everywhere. I just hate censorship so much.

To me, censorship just represents this whole larger picture of the government and society suppressing things. When I hear somebody say something like "Don't swear!" I just internally think "Why?" and then I hear the response "Because it is inappropriate" then in my head, I again respond "Why?" "WELL I DON'T KNOW!" Would be the response. It just represents this blind commitment to something stupid.

This is what I hate about society. How easily people just do things just because other people are doing them. Sure, I do a lot, if not most of the things in my life, because other people are, but at least I am AWARE OF IT. I have a conscious working mind.

One time I said "Crap" and a couple of 10 year olds were like "WHOA YOU SWORE". What? No. Crap is crap. I'm pretty sure I've heard "crap" on disney channel before.

The amount of things in this life that if you ask "Why" to enough, and you eventually come to no answer, just make me want to punch a puppy.

I swear, if I didn't ever take history in school, I would never have developed my philosophical mind, and likely wouldn't be thinking this way.

Right now I even want to not publish this post. I feel like negative feedback might be something that might happen. I do that a lot with my blog posts. I am just kind of like "Should I?" "What will people say/think?". Why the fuck am I doing that? I just need to post this. Stop worrying about what other people will think.

Geez. Fuck. Crap. Shit. Bitch. Whore. Cunt. Nigger. Jackass. Poophead. Brontosaurus.

All the same to me, just not society.