Greetings Economists,
On May 14, 2008, at 9:37 AM, Peter Hollings wrote:
Might the cultural revolution come from the new sources of news and
information springing up on the Internet?
Doyle;
I tend to see that as an issue of mobility of the device that gives
access to the internet. Think about culture this way, a desktop is
detached from the landscape the average person is in. So for the most
part except for going home and working in the garden, or flower pots,
most people have little direct connection to their local space as a
sense of 'community'. Their desk top device does not do much for them
in the world. Their impact on their local area is 'private'.
A cultural revolution is in just thinking that the local community has
history and more than sterile parks and streets. If I go to a spot in
the main business area of towns, what do I know there? The local
business wants me to know what they sell and they want to be
sophisticated communicators of information. So there is a business
reason to develop such information about location. So the tools of
location knowledge will arise without reference to left goals.
A left culture captures everyone's knowing the world around them. In
effect instead of presenting business knowledge of marketing items for
sale, shows the connection to other people in a growing sense of
detail and meaning. In effect supplants other cultural tools like
religion with a complex new sense of social meaning everywhere. Is
about a sense of wholeness to society that the community constructs.
Take any street in any town. you pass 'strangers', you don't know what
happened there yesterday, or the history of the spot. Some people go
gah gah about Europe with the sense of history to the place, and note
the culture-less U.S. tears down and puts up shoddy, then let it rot
endlessly. Some history huh? This sense of common working together
about location might not be detached from globalism either. For
example Google maps make sense in terms of presenting visual location
information. So I'm not confined to my place for knowing, I can know
most anywhere about as well as the map of my neighborhood. I'm (as an
individual every person) feeling a global system being made that gives
a sense of global purpose without regard to a left direction to
things. Combating global warming might impact people as a left goal,
but I'm interested as a lefty in what is 'left' (community connection,
and history) in location. Someone anywhere in the world is or could
be my friend at a particular juncture in my particular location. Or
said a different way global culture builds the means of socially
connecting people that is globally reflecting of a great cultural
value system.
When we talk values, morals, ethics, we are really talking about
navigating feelings. so a Globalized culture is directly attaching to
feelings any one person has. Let me describe this a bit. Suppose I
have a phobia of heights. I am afraid of edges with fall off. I go
to this location and wham I'm scared so bad I am paralyzed. Is that
fear tied to location? No. But the location sparks feeling that
varies from fear to awe to pleasure and so on (creating social values
like guard rails etc.), in other words the feeling is dynamic. So we
want to build into location a sense of what it means to 'feel' with
regard not to static 'values' of place (physical objects like guard
rails), but dynamic (some people are phobic some not) values of change
that are socially 'good'. Otherwise the global culture is not
connecting people everywhere at once successfully.
Thats my description in a nutshell of a globalized culture spawned
locally.
thanks,
Doyle Saylor
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