Werner Herzog on The Internet
Herzog talking about this documentary of his called Lo and Behold:
At 6 minutes 51 seconds "Does the Internet dream of itself?"
Well, it might be said to do so, if only it were actually connected up into one whole thing. But it is not, so it doesn't. I think this beautiful little documentary explains what I mean: watch it all, but pay particular attention to the discussion about the connection between imagination and reality which begins at 17 minutes 42 seconds
This is the problem: it stems from the abuse of capital by wealthy people, principally motivated by the desire to control economic activity, see from 30 minutes 51 seconds, and the concomitant degradation of the standards of education and everything in the human sphere which depends upon education. See What is the Sixth Estate?, Why is Telecommunications Security Important? and What is Socialist Economic Development? The problem is that those who feel the need to control others are motivated by fear more than any other emotion. See discussion from 42 minutes 33 seconds.
The idea that the Internet, or rather any universally available, secure, telecommunications network could fundamentally change Humanity is quite simple. It would do so by making possible the existential foundation of Human nature, as Simone de Beauvoir explains so succinctly and beautifully in this short interview from 1959:
This notion that "man is the reason for his own existence" is reflected in this idea of the Foundation of Value being based upon actual living human knowledge. See The Foundation (Parts I,II & III) But in so far as the earth and all life upon it is physically interconnected by ecological, biological, chemical and physical effects, the Aboriginal Internet has always dreamed of itself: see Hopi Prophecies and the Fifth World of the Australian Aboriginals:
As to the prototypical question of Herzog, "Does war dream of itself?": if cinema were in some sense a realization of collective human consciousness as Herzog and Tarkovsky seem to have suggested it could or should be, then in so far as cinematic influence produces some coherent response in the different cultures which compose Humanity, the answer must be yes. See the discussion on perception and cultural context from 23 minutes:
Though to me, war seems more like a nightmare within a nightmare. See Robots Re-encarne-nation. But the Aboriginal people of Papua New Guinea did dream of war within the dream-time, until the 90s, ...
See War Crimes.
Substance (lit!):
See DW on Rethinking Growth and Sustainability. And for another instance of the same decimal pattern, see Mississippi John Hurt.
At 6 minutes 51 seconds "Does the Internet dream of itself?"
Well, it might be said to do so, if only it were actually connected up into one whole thing. But it is not, so it doesn't. I think this beautiful little documentary explains what I mean: watch it all, but pay particular attention to the discussion about the connection between imagination and reality which begins at 17 minutes 42 seconds
This is the problem: it stems from the abuse of capital by wealthy people, principally motivated by the desire to control economic activity, see from 30 minutes 51 seconds, and the concomitant degradation of the standards of education and everything in the human sphere which depends upon education. See What is the Sixth Estate?, Why is Telecommunications Security Important? and What is Socialist Economic Development? The problem is that those who feel the need to control others are motivated by fear more than any other emotion. See discussion from 42 minutes 33 seconds.
The idea that the Internet, or rather any universally available, secure, telecommunications network could fundamentally change Humanity is quite simple. It would do so by making possible the existential foundation of Human nature, as Simone de Beauvoir explains so succinctly and beautifully in this short interview from 1959:
This notion that "man is the reason for his own existence" is reflected in this idea of the Foundation of Value being based upon actual living human knowledge. See The Foundation (Parts I,II & III) But in so far as the earth and all life upon it is physically interconnected by ecological, biological, chemical and physical effects, the Aboriginal Internet has always dreamed of itself: see Hopi Prophecies and the Fifth World of the Australian Aboriginals:
As to the prototypical question of Herzog, "Does war dream of itself?": if cinema were in some sense a realization of collective human consciousness as Herzog and Tarkovsky seem to have suggested it could or should be, then in so far as cinematic influence produces some coherent response in the different cultures which compose Humanity, the answer must be yes. See the discussion on perception and cultural context from 23 minutes:
See War Crimes.
Substance (lit!):
See DW on Rethinking Growth and Sustainability. And for another instance of the same decimal pattern, see Mississippi John Hurt.
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