Koan for the Digital Age
If words are typed into cyberspace, but nobody is there to read them, do they make a blog?
Is the point of the exercise to vent one's own mind, regardless of audience (or lack thereof), or is it to stimulate response by randomly flinging thoughts out across the virtual universe; sowing them like seeds upon rocky, fallow or fertile ground and hoping they gain purchase wherever they may land?
Consequently, what becomes of the nature of the words thus typed, once observed and perhaps even commented upon? Does the Heisenberg Principle apply? Do they retain their essence? Does conceptual inertia keep them steady and unaffected by reaction, or do they then become part of a greater whole; agglomerated into an uber-concept whose nature bouces randomly from contributor to contributor until it becomes a melange of ideas more representative of its past than of its present?
And lastly, what of the contributor? There are two divergent paths, one being affected by encounter and the other not. One persists until by single contact suffers permanent immolation, at which point the other permeates immutably, creating an abstract Moebius reality; one-sided in perptuity yet with two distinct edges at any given point. Can the single dimension of virtual concept thus influence, in 3 dimensions, the ideas of their creator?
Who knows? I'm getting a beer.

1 Comment:
I suspect a simple hit counter would solve the general problem, and a single comment the particular. For most problems there is a solution. I hope...
By satguru, Feb 29 08 8:44 PM