Is the Web the new WEST? - GoFuckYourself.com

2HousePlague · 08-13-2005, 01:45 PM

The Web is the ?West?!

I?ve thought and written a lot about the West and our travel in that general direction ? perhaps most lucidly right here in my own ambush interview . I?ve considered the last thousand years: We reached a height of great achievement on the other side of the Atlantic. From atop that great height, a number of Extremely Courageous People got into tiny boats and set sail for the Frontier. We reached a height of great achievement on the East Coast of America. From atop that height, a number of Extremely Courageous People got into tiny wagons and set out for the Frontier.

In each case, they left because they had decided Happiness (however they decided to define it) required a Clean Slate Beginning. So off they went into the Wilderness, where they expected nothing was, yet. They figured it was worth the risk to life and limb, the terrible UNCERTAINTY, and giving up the coziness of living in a thriving society for just a chance to CREATE THE WORLD OF THEIR DREAMS. Enormous gamble. Enormous reward.

Enormous are the stakes that get us fired up enough to pack it up and haul our asses ?out of bed at night?, en masse. Yet, it seems that many times in history those stakes have been available. And every time, the ?bookie? people think of in their hearts and heads as they lay it down and play their hand? is God. Atheists have never done it.

I?ve considered our present situation, as a planet of people and as Californians ? we are both at the end of a line, the inheritors of something our ancient forebears won for us when they gambled on the future and headed West. We are, yet again, atop a great height of Achievement. We?ve invented lots of really cool shit. We have many elaborate systems for taking care of almost everything. We have many rules and procedures to keep it all running as it should. There are many people who have invested everything in the Current System of Things, and who would fight and die before they saw it change. But there are certainly many people among us who believe in the merits of a Clean Slate Beginning.

The problem is, there isn?t really a ?vast, uncharted SomePlace? out there anymore for us to dream about. There?s no more West. Or is there?

"One Direction of Travel"

Where do we go from here? The West..
is fully occupied. "Civility"
is out of space. And the Idealists
are crying out for Natives to convert.
Nor do the Anarchists
have any wilderness
to shed their clothes and all their common sense.

It feels a bit like Europe! Now...
that we have reached a Coast of sorts,
and face (like the Atlantic, once)
a vast, impenetrable void, again,
what can we do but contemplate
the cities we have built and left,
as if it were our fate?

If the Web is the New West, the latest Final Frontier, the direction of our Utopian Dreams in 2005, there should be some recognizable signs.

Is our society divided on the question of whether to go and what to do there? Is the Establishment both interested in exploitation but afraid of what may be brought back? Is there just a thin fringe of society who really understand what?s needed for the trip? Is there uncertainty among the masses about the questions who?s in control, who?s in charge or who?s in the know? Is there a Spiritual rubric available to inspire would-be colonists and to help recruit missionaries?

Makes ya wonder, don?t it.

2HP

thaifan99 · 08-13-2005, 01:46 PM

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pornguy · 08-13-2005, 01:47 PM

That is one way to think of it.

08-13-2005, 01:45 PM	#1
2HousePlague CURATOR Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: the attic Posts: 14,572	Is the Web the new WEST? The Web is the ?West?! I?ve thought and written a lot about the West and our travel in that general direction ? perhaps most lucidly right here in my own ambush interview . I?ve considered the last thousand years: We reached a height of great achievement on the other side of the Atlantic. From atop that great height, a number of Extremely Courageous People got into tiny boats and set sail for the Frontier. We reached a height of great achievement on the East Coast of America. From atop that height, a number of Extremely Courageous People got into tiny wagons and set out for the Frontier. In each case, they left because they had decided Happiness (however they decided to define it) required a Clean Slate Beginning. So off they went into the Wilderness, where they expected nothing was, yet. They figured it was worth the risk to life and limb, the terrible UNCERTAINTY, and giving up the coziness of living in a thriving society for just a *chance* to CREATE THE WORLD OF THEIR DREAMS. Enormous gamble. Enormous reward. Enormous are the stakes that get us fired up enough to pack it up and haul our asses ?out of bed at night?, en masse. Yet, it seems that many times in history those stakes have been available. And every time, the ?bookie? people think of in their hearts and heads as they lay it down and play their hand? is God. Atheists have never done it. I?ve considered our present situation, as a planet of people and as Californians ? we are both at the end of a line, the inheritors of something our ancient forebears won for us when they gambled on the future and headed West. We are, yet again, atop a great height of Achievement. We?ve invented lots of really cool shit. We have many elaborate systems for taking care of almost everything. We have many rules and procedures to keep it all running as it should. There are many people who have invested everything in the Current System of Things, and who would fight and die before they saw it change. But there are certainly many people among us who believe in the merits of a Clean Slate Beginning. The problem is, there isn?t really a ?vast, uncharted SomePlace? out there anymore for us to dream about. There?s no more West. Or is there? "One Direction of Travel" Where do we go from here? The West.. is fully occupied. "Civility" is out of space. And the Idealists are crying out for Natives to convert. Nor do the Anarchists have any wilderness to shed their clothes and all their common sense. It feels a bit like Europe! Now... that we have reached a Coast of sorts, and face (like the Atlantic, once) a vast, impenetrable void, again, what can we do but contemplate the cities we have built and left, as if it were our fate? If the Web is the New West, the latest Final Frontier, the direction of our Utopian Dreams in 2005, there should be some recognizable signs. Is our society divided on the question of whether to go and what to do there? Is the Establishment both interested in exploitation but afraid of what may be brought back? Is there just a thin fringe of society who really understand what?s needed for the trip? Is there uncertainty among the masses about the questions who?s in control, who?s in charge or who?s in the know? Is there a Spiritual rubric available to inspire would-be colonists and to help recruit missionaries? Makes ya wonder, don?t it. 2HP __________________ tada! Last edited by 2HousePlague; 08-13-2005 at 01:46 PM..

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08-13-2005, 01:47 PM	#3
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