Friday, March 04, 2005
On Uptopian Ideals
Subservience, a desired trait.
Provided you desire dominance over the masses. To achieve obedience from the populace, it is necessary for society to insert values into the system of thought, and in recent decades, into the educational systems. Where better to start grooming the next generation?
Values such as nobility, compassion, so on and so forth. Society tends to lean towards values that remain beneficial to society. The government will promote values that are of intrinsic value to its position. In certain cases, it will encourage the ignorance of certain moral values over other moral values, if that would result in a consolidation of the organization's interests.
Certain values would always lose out to others. For example, loyalty to one's nation will precede values such as honor and piety. That is because the rulers dictate it through the grooming of its citizens. After all, they would rather people die for king and country than for parents. Moreover there also is a possibility that parents might harbor sentiments not in line with the government's general consensus.
It is quite fallacious to conclude that each and every moral value has a different basic worth. Rather, the worth of a moral lies in its association with survival. The more closely related to survival the value becomes, the higher its worth. However, the values that are placed on these morals are not entirely determined by the individual. Instead, it also depends heavily on the social background and political climate. That is of course, not saying that the values that a government might choose to emphasize is wrong. On the contrary, the government will also strive to ensure the survival of the people. Of course, it is vital that the people are content. Otherwise, there would be nothing for them to govern.
So of course, to them, the value of morals lies in its ability to mould the people. Promote the right values, and the population would react in certain ways. Often, the government hopes it is for the better.
However, it is unfair for the common man. They really do not have a choice in what to believe in. Look at it in a broader scope, the same might actually apply to everyone. Not many people can truly ascertain the validity of the freedom of their choice. What we perceive as choice, might merely an illusion.
Although I must emphasize that giving everyone the freedom of choice will result in chaos. Not necessarily in a detrimental way, but rather, chaotic by nature of it being a logistical nightmare.
Our world revolves around logistics, and subservience is the policing quality that ensures the continuity of logistics. With out diligence, discipline and meticulous planning, logistics will not be accurate. This is where subservience is required.
Otherwise, it would not be possible to maintain the level of productivity, unless it is possible for the above mentioned values to be displayed without a display of subservience.
Without logistics, our modern world will simply collapse. The foundation of the world is no longer a solid material pillar; rather, it is based on logistics, and on numbers. The golden word? Capital. Capital that no longer changes hands physically, but virtually. The world changes at too fast a pace for physical exchanges to occur before the next transaction.
That is why information has been dumped unto the world through the medium of the internet. For logistics to be efficient, transmission of information is of the essence, and what better solution than to dump it all.
This has lead to an interesting time.
The information age, is the perfect opportunity to break out of the cycle of subservience. The sea of Information contains knowledge. Beckoning the willing to open their mind to view the enormity of existence. Only those who are willing will break the surface and discover what lies ahead.
Do not say that it is impossible. It is not about the impossibility of the task, but the obstinacy of the mind that manufactured that word. There really is not point in being content. Progress only occurs when there are changes, and changes will always follow the uncontested. Contentment, it is merely a disguised complacency, and also a fear of change and failure.
So by all means do not restrict the curiosity of the brain; never stifle the questions that go unanswered just because nobody dares to discuss them. The imperative lies on us to think about what we are fed and decided what we consume. Unfortunately, not everything is not what it seems, nor is it nearly as simple.
There has to be a base of subservient workers to sustain the status quo. With out these base level workers, the integrity of the current system cannot be upheld. Such is question of opportunity. Whoever is able to break free of the chaste system that exists in the society naturally are the people residing at the top of that hierarchy.
That is before we achieve a free society, man would be faced with the problem of eradicating the chaste system that lingers. To liberated the masses from the constraints of menial labor. That is where they come in with the idea of automation.
For the moment, that would suffice for our needs. But in future, the same problem might reemerge when the robots become increasingly “intelligent”. When they reach the level of man’s intelligence, would the same argument of the liberation of man from labor be applied to the instance of the robots?
When robots become sentient beings, the very same predicament will present itself again. Of course, that problem will only begin to emerge in the distant future, but it would be incredibly myopic of humans to leave the problem to their descendants.
The same problem always occurs. There has to be a dominating “party” that regulates the rests. In conclusion not all the people will be presented with the opportunity to be liberated. The real question is, how can we reach a stage where everyone will be given the opportunity to break loose.
Gavin
pondered @ 09:45
