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The Internet as a 'medium' of New Aeon consciousness

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    PatchworkSerpent
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    Thought I'd share this great essay I found, it expands on McLuhan's predictions in Understanding Media and examines the effect of the Internet on world culture. To me it speaks on how the New Aeon is unfolding through the cultural effect of the Internet:

    2012diaries.blogspot.com/2012/05/man-becomes-sex-organs-of-machine-world.html

    As we create countless new ways to transmit information, these mediums instantaneously 'push back' and shape us. We become unwitting coequals - not masters - of our own creations. This environment we manufacture in turn moulds our collective unconscious, shaping our culture and way of life in ways we are unaware of for generations to follow.

    IMHO the Internet is a essential physical factor and medium in the unfolding of New Aeon consciousness, and its integration into our world is the current stabilisation and major cultural shift of our time.

    On a more abstract note, this illustrates to me how the forces shaping humanity's destiny remain external to our rational selves - no matter how hard we try to 'step outside the game' and act like we run the place. Technology moulds us in equal or greater proportion to our moulding of it.

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    Q789
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    One of the aspects of the new Aeon is the advent of global consciousness, the single planetary mind- could internet be apart of this?

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    Avshalom Binyamin
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    McLuhan's predictions about internet-age culture sound decidedly New Aeon to me.

    Oversimplifying: he's frequently contrasting tribal (pre-literate) culture and industrial (literate) culture, and the way he defines them sounds very much like Isis vs Osiris. And then he goes on to talk about how the new culture is going to be a blend of the two.

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    Uni_Verse
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    It use to be, if you wanted to get a product out there
    You need lots money and space, take your performance every place
    Now, internet unbounds, and with a single link
    The World comes, expresses what it thinks

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    Jim Eshelman
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    @kasper81 said

    "any technology instigated since 1904 is going to be part of new aeon consciousness isn't it?"

    No. No reason to believe that. People are still acting from Isis and Osiris motivations (based on their own level of development).

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    @kasper81 said

    "yeah i know that but the acceleration of technology in 20th/21st century is speedily aiding any breakdown of the old aeon e.g. mobile phones used in Arab spring, like i said movies ie Hollywood's history of anti conservative agenda, porn technology, like the OP said the internet and trends towards democratization, nuclear weapons, MTV, MDMA, primitive beat electronics, cars, cheap heavier than air flight for all, birth contol pills, NASA,"

    Technology in many ways is revealing that despite our lofty ideals we are not entirely above our animal counterparts, as has been proposed by the Old Aeon.
    One might say, until the two underlying currents of the two previous Aeons even out will New Aeon ideas really spring forth.
    I believe we are still experiencing the reemergence of what the previous Aeon had driven under ground.

    I have visited the Moon on numerous occasions without the need for billions of dollars and a ship beyond the one I currently posses grown upon the Earth, fed by the Sun.

    As for birth control, I prefer to take responsibility for any men I put out to sea 😄

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    Smokey Monking
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    As it´s usually said, technology is nothing per se, but how we use it and so on. Apart that, I usually find that people tends to polarizate about one or the other aspect of technology/internet use, the good or the not so good, which makes me think in a line on Cosmopolis movie/book, that makes the question a question of faith on technology or something:

    ""Technology is crucial to civilization why? Because it helps us make our fate. We don't need God or miracles or the flight of the bumble bee. But it is also crouched and undecidable. It can go either way.” "

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