In the following posts I will be gathering various memes and hopefully presenting them in a cohesive manner. As far as I know, none of the information presented here will be new to the internet. While some of the material may be new to some of you, I assure you that I have found it elsewhere and that it is not my original creation. (Although, I do find that my interpretation of the famous monolith and star-child images differ slightly from other interpretations, but more about that later.) I may end up weaving a unique pattern of memes that, in turn, creates another meme, I can't be sure at this point. All I can say is that I hope you enjoy reading, looking and thinking.
That being said I would like to welcome you to a series tentatively titled Another Odyssey, in which I will attempt to show how the technology employed by the system* to sustain and expand itself inevitably keeps humans in a child-like state of mind, a slave-like state of being, and ultimately, leaves us trapped inside the technological apparati of the system as unwitting accomplices to it's ever-expanding desires. In part two I will attempt to show how director Stanley Kubrick encoded this into his movie, 2001 : A Space Odyssey, and in part three, how Arthur C. Clark continued this, man-as-child-slave narrative into the Odyssey series of novels.
I am not trying to convince you of a grand conspiracy to funnel human beings down a specific evolutionary path in these posts. I will not be invoking extraterrestrial intelligence, cyborgs, secret cabals or even Friedrich Nietzsche. I will leave the issue of intentionality for you to decide.
I think all of these observations will be quite obvious and the conclusions drawn from them straightforward. As I said, the, technology is trapping us meme is nothing new, it's just that I think I will be able to present it in a unique and hopefully, entertaining manner.
In part one I will be presenting a compendium of quotations from various writers on the subjects of the man-as-child-slave and technology. Some will make specific reference to modern-day Western culture, and others will be possibly more abstract.
* see : Patriarchy
That being said I would like to welcome you to a series tentatively titled Another Odyssey, in which I will attempt to show how the technology employed by the system* to sustain and expand itself inevitably keeps humans in a child-like state of mind, a slave-like state of being, and ultimately, leaves us trapped inside the technological apparati of the system as unwitting accomplices to it's ever-expanding desires. In part two I will attempt to show how director Stanley Kubrick encoded this into his movie, 2001 : A Space Odyssey, and in part three, how Arthur C. Clark continued this, man-as-child-slave narrative into the Odyssey series of novels.
I am not trying to convince you of a grand conspiracy to funnel human beings down a specific evolutionary path in these posts. I will not be invoking extraterrestrial intelligence, cyborgs, secret cabals or even Friedrich Nietzsche. I will leave the issue of intentionality for you to decide.
I think all of these observations will be quite obvious and the conclusions drawn from them straightforward. As I said, the, technology is trapping us meme is nothing new, it's just that I think I will be able to present it in a unique and hopefully, entertaining manner.
In part one I will be presenting a compendium of quotations from various writers on the subjects of the man-as-child-slave and technology. Some will make specific reference to modern-day Western culture, and others will be possibly more abstract.
* see : Patriarchy
