Alex
04-09-2010, 06:23 AM
At the top of the day’s din all the nation’s ad bearing screens and all the bill boards are welded together and folded with screens and boards facing inward so that they form a cube spanning miles on a side. Floating at the center of the cube are the members of the House and Senate. Floating just outside of the cube and enveloping it are the 300 million other citizens. We the people are screaming in chorus but our representatives are unaware due to the opacity and the cacophony.
Switch to a restaurant where all the implements are made of barely visible glass and every inch of the walls floors and ceilings is covered with flat panel screens collectively rendering a nice pastoral scene. You can see its synthetic because a door to the kitchen opens momentarily. Switch to the commercial, the walls then recreate the inside of the cube from the first scene.
Switch to a hallway. “Yes miss that’s Johnny’s home room.” She swings the door open and its clear that the children can’t hear the teacher over the din because the walls, floor and ceiling are recreating din from the first scene.
It’s a hydroponic lab where plants are being grown off the light from the panels covering every square inch of the walling and reconstructing the cube and its cacophony on loop.
The first scene is possibly representative of a more virtual but more filtered government.
The second is a conglomeration leading to media discounts on leases so that the restaurant has sponsors and modal ads that must patrons endure. Third, after a while data never really corresponds to anything outside of the net and the media figures that the kids ought to learn the important figures just as they would geography. In the fourth, power cables are also data cables and light panels also tend to be screen/speakers, so again through conglomeration there is a discount- there would be an extra charge for not having the ads.
Its ads (sponsorship) that enables lobbying and leads to us losing our voice and losing our power. We lose our real wealth and end up with a society dominated and gridlocked by “socially useless” organizations that only look good on paper. If we can get truly open communication and dialog going we can count gain differently as well. True communication is empowerment but true communication requires engaged dialog that unnecessary suppression and distraction impede.
When we allow our attention to be corralled without demanding immediate direct reparation we are allowing our power of self definition and self determination to be eroded. Under the present system when our time and attention are stolen one party pays the another for the right to exploit us, which is ironic because the market itself is infrastructure which we more than own outright and can change to suit our needs. Its as if we own the road but we allow someone else to charge us for its use and force feed us bill
Switch to a restaurant where all the implements are made of barely visible glass and every inch of the walls floors and ceilings is covered with flat panel screens collectively rendering a nice pastoral scene. You can see its synthetic because a door to the kitchen opens momentarily. Switch to the commercial, the walls then recreate the inside of the cube from the first scene.
Switch to a hallway. “Yes miss that’s Johnny’s home room.” She swings the door open and its clear that the children can’t hear the teacher over the din because the walls, floor and ceiling are recreating din from the first scene.
It’s a hydroponic lab where plants are being grown off the light from the panels covering every square inch of the walling and reconstructing the cube and its cacophony on loop.
The first scene is possibly representative of a more virtual but more filtered government.
The second is a conglomeration leading to media discounts on leases so that the restaurant has sponsors and modal ads that must patrons endure. Third, after a while data never really corresponds to anything outside of the net and the media figures that the kids ought to learn the important figures just as they would geography. In the fourth, power cables are also data cables and light panels also tend to be screen/speakers, so again through conglomeration there is a discount- there would be an extra charge for not having the ads.
Its ads (sponsorship) that enables lobbying and leads to us losing our voice and losing our power. We lose our real wealth and end up with a society dominated and gridlocked by “socially useless” organizations that only look good on paper. If we can get truly open communication and dialog going we can count gain differently as well. True communication is empowerment but true communication requires engaged dialog that unnecessary suppression and distraction impede.
When we allow our attention to be corralled without demanding immediate direct reparation we are allowing our power of self definition and self determination to be eroded. Under the present system when our time and attention are stolen one party pays the another for the right to exploit us, which is ironic because the market itself is infrastructure which we more than own outright and can change to suit our needs. Its as if we own the road but we allow someone else to charge us for its use and force feed us bill