New Harmony Utopia
I earned my place on the Internet as one of the earliest pioneers. I didn’t invent it or anything so preposterous as one political idiot claimed, but I was there as a user in the early days. So I knew it when it was a free and honorable place for communication by simple text messaging and I and have watched it mature into the backbone of the socialistic marketing beast it is today.
So be it. It is the price of defining freedom. It’s the human condition to seek freedom but embrace it with rules.
Rules are created because there are people who are considered spoilers who will always exist. There is no single level measure of acceptable descent, nor should there be one. Varied opinions are a necessary and contributing part of human existence. However, some humans can be very ugly, selfish and even criminalistic when they want to be and will display any degree of social incompatibility as they desire. To some, being anti-social is an expression of a “right” to “freedom”. It is very evident on the Internet. Freedom is not a path to perfection or perfect peace and unity.
It’s this range of basic human character differences that causes fragmentation into social groups with rules. The birds of a feather flock together phenomena. There is no such ideal state where total freedom is a basis of equality or what is envisioned as a Utopia. I linked that word as some younger readers may not know the meaning of this ancient concept. Utopia is a very political society with defined rules and certainly doesn’t permit total freedom. “A utopia /ju??to?pi?/ is a community or society possessing highly desirable or near perfect qualities” — WikipediA
Communes and cults spring from the concepts of a Utopia.
Living Free
The imperfections of a “free” Internet are real so we all learn to survive and enjoy what we have. In my Internet authoring experience, I struggle with what I call the “joiners” and the “spoilers” that cause me to highly screen any responses to what I publish. I discovered an open response forum is far too difficult to maintain.
Much of what comes through is now commonly referred to as Spam. There are many variations (follow the link.)
I have ventured into many open blogs where the comments become overrun with the illiterate and foul cursing comments that have no contribution to the subject matter. It’s like an anti-social pre-teen who just learned a new “dirty word” and wants to exercise the “right” to publish it as a credential of their “freedom”. What a sad goal and mission of life…
So I move on to what is more worthy of my time. Just like ignoring the trash on the side of the road. I don’t like to see it, but I know it is there. So I build a house in a high walled compound with locked gates. Only the “clean” are allowed entry and I am the judge and the one who controls entry by defining rules to build filters. Freedom isn’t so free anymore… but I am free to build the compound containing my personal utopia.
Pure boundless freedom is an illusion. It always has limits and definition. If you define freedom with rules, you lose it. It’s behaves the same as quantum physics. Some day the “smart” scientist will realize they are trying to study complete and perfect freedom. A realm where there are no rules and nothing can be defined.
The human mind seems like it can’t handle a place without rules. There has to be a definition (rule) for everything. Even after death, humans have filled it with rules. Dang, I can’t even die and find true freedom… 🙂