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Networking: Blurring the Lines Between the Past, the Present, and the Future
I don't know what I would do without my planner. Each day, I plan out what I need to do, where I need to be, and by what time I need to do that and be there. Our society is run by a ticking clock.
This first blog post is from the Tedblog. It discusses how a speaker believes that "Technology has altered our flow of time...." She says that digital media is an opportunity to leave our time and place and enter another.
Read here about how she explains that reading online is affecting our ability to pay attention to the present.
Now here's a blog post that considers the future. This post talks about a "Future Library project," which "will unfold over a century, and will be completed in 2114. Each year, a writer will be invited to contribute a new text, which will be printed on paper made from a forest of 1,000 trees planted for that purpose."
The blogger questions this project by considering the future of reading. Read here to learn more.
That leads me to today's uprising of the e-book. This blog post is about e-books today, the controversy over them that is going on with Amazon, and how this is "terrifying for writers." Read here to find out more about that.
And to end this post, a super cute picture of a smiley hedgehog:
Guest Blogger: The Fault in the Writings About the Fault of Writing
A person's word usually means nothing today unless you get it in writing. You can't just "shake on it." Sure, we have to promise that we're telling "the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth," but important information must be put into writing, signed, and notarized. It pretty much has to be all but chiseled in stone. However, in the past, the spoken word was seen as the reliable method of passing down history and for handling legal issues.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTrPJvEzmwQ
However, in the past, the spoken word was seen as the reliable method of passing down history and for handling legal issues.
In Chapter 8 of Walter Ong’s Orality and Literacy, Ong explains that writing has been seen as an autonomous discourse, or a self-contained, independent expression of ideas, disabling readers from directly responding to or challenging the author. It was also impermanent, impersonal, and it was believed to diminish memory. We know this, ironically, because of the writings of people like Plato.
The claim that writing is impermanent, impersonal, and incapable of being challenged is not the case, even more so now than just over thirty years ago when Ong’s book was published. In the early 80s, the world of social media was not so prominent as it is today.
Ong writes, “Writing is passive, out of it, in an unreal, unnatural world. So are computers.”
Today, social media has changed writing from autonomous discourse to a connection of human minds around the world interacting, questioning, challenging, and responding. In Amber Case's TED talk, Amber Case describes the connection over the Internet as a very organic connection between humans. When I post something on Twitter, people can read it instantly and reply. Social media enables online writers to interact with and directly respond to one another, making it no longer an autonomous discourse of passivity, but instead a very active exchange of ideas by people all over the world.
A note on permanency… Ong also points out the claim that writing can be erased while orality is permanant (you can’t erase your words). But try posting one of your deep dark secrets on social media and see if you can erase it forever. http://www.ted.com/talks/juan_enriquez_how_to_think_about_digital_tattoos shows how what we put online is as permanent as a tattoo. Unless you’re able to memorize books like Eli in Book of Eli or in Ray Bradbury’s Fehrenheit 451, writing is a much more permanent method, especially when it’s cast into the realm of the internet.
Also see www.egcgroup.com/blog/permanency-online-media
In what cases could online writing be considered autonomous discourse? Since this blog post is not autonomous discourse, please respond!
Jachim and Boaz ( Mercy and Severity )
Jachim and Boaz are the pair of symbolic pillars (with Boaz on the left) described in the biblical account of the Temple of Solomon and featured prominently in Masonic temples.
”We enter earthly life through Jakim, assured that what is there outside in the macrocosm now lives in us, that we are a microcosm, for the word Jakim means.“The divine poured out over the world is in you.” The other pillar, Boaz, is the entrance into the spiritual world through death. What is contained in the word Boaz is roughly this, “What I have hitherto sought within myself, namely strength, I shall find poured out over the whole world; in it I shall live.” Rudolf Steiner
In the Jewish mystical kabbalah, Jachim and Boaz are the left and rightmost pillars of the tree of life- mercy and severity, or strength. Jachim represents the male polarity of the universe, light, motion, activity, the electron. Boaz represents the female polarity of the universe, darkness, passivity, receptivity, and silence. The pillars are similar in concept to the Eastern Yin Yang, representing opposites in balance.
Like much Masonic symbolism, the pillars are described in the old testament story of King Solomon, as the most significant feature of a grand temple. The story has traditionally been viewed as symbolic, and to Freemasons represents the spiritual development of man. One Masonic legend avers that the philosopher Pythagoras discovered the pillars, and together with Hermes Trismegistus, used them to discover all of the secrets of Geometry.