didn't even edit it, just had to write, just had to...

[poorernie]

IMPORTANT TO READ THISthere are several things worth fighting for. war no longer is one of those. people are too intelligent, mobile, stupid, and unstable to control the sort of technology that brilliant scientists invented to sell/give to them to use

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[ceramufary]

You are Mad, my strange little friend. But it's the kind of Madness that leads to deeper Worth, so this is good.

Computers really /aren't/ more complex than us. To wit, there are still a handful of people in the world capable of understanding what every single circuit and transistor on the motherboard does--capable of writing in machine code. There is no one and has never been anyone capable of understanding what each circuit in our brains do. We may never know.

However, the spirit of your rant is still perfectly germaine and valuable, so rock on.
Have you read any:
Timothy Leary
Robert S. Wilson
Aleister Crowley
???

Most especially you oughta pick up Ol' Bob's "Cosmic Trigger". You are approaching a "Chapel Perilous" and you need -- well, not a map, but a guide book.

[poorernie]

oh I don't mean computers are more complex than the human being. but I mean that computers simplify complex processes for people, synthesizing the potential god complex, or disassociation of cause and effect. in other words, we take our technology for granted, and yet there is a gigantic majority that doesn't even understnad how technology works.

I would love to get into some books and if you can recommend anything to toss in the booklist, I'd be glad =). but that booklist is rather large and I'm very busy with music, so it'll take quite a while to please you with the fact that I've read those books, heh

[blahblahbloo]

I doubt that there's anyone in the world who understands all of a modern computer system in any detail

[poorernie]

whoa

[tabor36]

"it was one of the first times society made an autonomous tool."

...I think this has been going on sense organized religion, but I see what you are stating.

We are born with in more complex system than its user just by living in a body. If anything computers are less complex then us, because they don't have to bread.

[poorernie]

brilliant. I like where this is leading. my main dilemma is that I wanted to provide an extended metaphor for people who can't quite understand higher concepts, but do understand the vocabulary (i.e. my dad

[nonsense_sickle]

Lights bulbs aren't much like the sun. Light bulbs utilize combustion and the sun is nukular.

[destroycarthage]

Well then, you better run because from your photo it looks like you're standing next to a nuclear explosion!

[poorernie]

run guillermo. nukular explosions are coming for you

[destroycarthage]

One of numerous possible comments on this subject...very delightful!

I was recently fascinated with parasitism, but more in reference to interpersonal relations under capitalism. Lenin talks about the parasitism of imperialism, why occurs in the debtor/creditor relationships between powerful (or in contemporary jargon) “first-world” countries and destitute “third-world” countries, the former drawing on the latter for labor resources and potential markets.

These Rentnerstaats or “usurer states” represent the decay of capitalism embodied in the proliferation of monopolies. Of course the major themes of the division of labor and centralization of wealth are discussed.

But capitalism is also cannibalistic, preying on itself, opening up holes for new markets. This internal decay might be similar to Baudrillard’s ‘implosion of culture’.

[poorernie]

I like, I like a LOT. I know barely anything about political philosophy...get most of it through david iles (user name sexysyko) who's working on his polisci graduate something something, and lots of sex as well apparently. recommend a book on this and I should put it in the book list (ref. previous comment on book list). then, all of you who have put books on my book list will be forced to fight to the death over the gradation of it. I will hold the match in an ice rink simply because fighting on ice is more difficult and far more awesome than anything other than magma. if it weren't so paradoxical, I'd hold the match on both

[node_princess]

have you read My Name is Asher Lev? You should!!!

[poorernie]

HAHAHA so many books