Bringing up Knowledge and Porn.

What is it with us and escape clauses? If you remember (or would care to scroll down my back pages) you would find a post similarly stuck up as "dreaming of better porn". The title was obviously misleading and I just went on to vent less needed rhetoric and shame on me for misleading you oftener than the once.

There is this play off between the voices in my head. One commands me be a capitalist pimp, be a conservative whore, drag down the potential of others, never say what I mean unless the price is right. I haven't ever distributed for free what I could sell, but that still ain't me.

The other, the seditious one, the ubiquitous socialist prick who is the bane of all self-imposed and borne intellectualism wants me to be one with the rest of the sentient sub-sentient biomass morass I find myself a part of. Heed their creative faux-creative sub-aqueous voices too. We are all made the same.

"It's rarely man climbs to excellence by
His own thin branches; God in his goodness
Wills us to claim from from Him nobility."

But may he find himself hoisted by his own petard if he tries to impose social conditioning on me supposing a genocide can take care of the subversive 'elements'. I am only dancing here, aren't I?

Old mister dotard, crippling ailment claim your sexual extremities and fruit if you drown your own voice to save it all for a better time, a better audience. There is none. The more you sell, the less you have and it does work that way for all your bell bottom blues.

It doesn't matter if I fluster in the beginning, the end or everywhere in the middle. Does that make a lesser man of me?

There is this offensive term you see "newbie". It has plagued me with dogged earnestness to follow me wherever I may go. I don't want more, I don't want it very fast. I am socially awkward sometimes but it is very nearly always justifiable. How can the mind be contained by the conversations of a few within a room? Can the Dalai Lama be called a newbie because he cannot port forward or set up a torrent tracker?

Then what is justifiably intelligent clerisy knowledge? Is it knowing what the most relevant issues are? Being au courant with the issues concerning existence? Isn't that too vast a net? Isn't an inherently conceited mind incapable of learning and re-learning something anything for all the time it is? How can we overlook journalism as daily wager literature? A primogenitor of pulp fiction? People go through their entire lives sitting on fences because frankly it is rather difficult to make commitments, much unlike the thing with men in sitcom romances. In some ways we are like a sitcom audience, always setting up ourselves with much care to experience what have already felt and liked, sometimes with soda and popcorn. Lets face it: there is too much "stuff" and so many "things" floating about and our memory banks though voided frequently with weekend binges cannot quite contend with that "something vaster", something "omniscient".

So what have I been leading up to? An entity with a baselining intellect that has no problems with containing all the knowledge the world -with all its sales pitches for V8 cars and the rest that makes up its voluminous voluminosity- crams in indiscriminately into uncorrelated minds. The good news is that we already have begun the development of such a being. Here, this thing you are experiencing right now is the ascendant of that future. We call it Web 2.0

Now the development of the Web 2.0 probably started off as a less fulgurant scheme. Imagine a company that wants to make a lot of money. It has some money, but not enough to buy its poor executives islands in the Pacific. Imagine that! So it wants a lot of advertising money, right? It wants its pages seen across the most number of web connected consoles, right? But returning visitors need an incentive to come back. Like good content. Good engaging content is hard to come by, leave alone exceptionally interesting content. So how do we force the visitors to come back for more? The company cannot possibly keep creating fun interesting content filled pages, that would require many thousands of employees, content writers, creative artists etc etc.

See where I am leading?

The company simply buys servers or server spaces on the internet, puts together a user friendly user-generated content distribution website, like youtube, lets the visitors upload their own content, visit their own content, forward it to others, advertise and voila a few million dollars for each MD's kitty every month.

Why stop there? Let them talk amongst themselves, share, create more, visit more, even buy their own server spaces, their own ads leading to the said spaces and so on.

So what we have is very simplistic and yet infinitely complex because the creativity involved is only limited by the near infinite permutations and combination of the total biomass morass involved in the project. Now I am not very sure I remember how Permutations and Combinations exactly work. But imagine 10 numbers are involved in 2 types of combinations, then the total outcome will be 45 and if they are involved in permutations, the number is 90. However, if 10 numbers are involved in 10 permutations, the result shoots up to 3628800. Or so my calculator tells me.

Now you surely know better than to doubt arguments involving large numbers, even if you like me only very weakly follow the argument itself. Why bother imagining quotients and remainders when summing up infinites?

Again what am I leading to?

What is the Purpose of All Multiplication (PoAM)? Maybe? I hate concluding so obtrusively, just as everything was getting exciting.

But maybe one simple-minded PoAM is gathering all the precious resources one can find? Processed or otherwise? Creativity and not Intelligence (or quotients thereof) being a resource?

Then how can you or I claim creativity is an end unto itself? How can we be this conceited about ourselves just because we create and develop a knack for this creation business over time?

Ullo Creators and Mothers all, your absolutism stands to be upstaged and 'tis high time for a new tide of absolutism.

PS: As for the porn, shame on me for leading you on, but it isn't that dirty so indulge your well senesced lewdness somewhere else. If it helps keep a few million potential sex predators off the streets, I am all for porn and more actors of the same ilk.