Well Hello readers, I just suffered a short bout of writers block, and was unable to write anything but sad lovesick poetry etc... and hence now I have bounced back from my compositional "funk" as it were and so as a result, I shall post my award winning essay: My Intangible Passion. So without further ado: My Intangible Passion! My Intangible Passion
by: Omega
Many people in this world have passions that are tangible. You can touch the artists sculpture, you can hear the musicians sound, but my passion is somewhat intangible and invisible. My passion is the internet. No matter where I am, home at my workstation with its silvery shine, the comforting sound of Mac OSX booting up out of its sleeping state, the prospects of being among others of my type, I can always reach it. Its my alter-ego, my alter-reality. After a stressful day in the reality here, I can disappear into the internet and get absorbed in a discussion with an Irish blogger over anything I want.
I guess its the fact that I can completely step away from reality when I’m there, I can be my alter ego, Omega, who makes podcasts, writes blogs and manages forums. I’m like some caped super-hero who all day is a typical American Student, but by night is some mysterious masked blogger. Its such a great feeling to know that there is a world beyond our current conceptions of the world. There is the internet, and that is a place where I’ve made my home.
I can call up any fact I need at will, whether to support my new anti-Microsoft theory or just to see what DID come first the chicken or the egg. (By the way it was a genetic mutation that created chickens from turkeys. But thats just my theory.) I hop in my favorite search engine and go for a ride. I’ve mastered the internet. I can do anything. But the best thing about the internet, is its freedom. There is no older presence preventing me from seeing, or creating or experiencing anything. I can do what I like, and no-one can stop me. No oppressive government, no site blockers, no parental controls, the internet is my construct, my neighborhood. The world is my neighborhood.
Not only does the internet have local effects, it has global effects. All these politicians and diplomats, sitting in congress and the UN, working on ways to share global peace. When indeed, they completely have missed global peace, sitting right under their monitors. The Internet. Yes thats correct, the internet is the only NON-PLANNED effort for global peace that has worked better than any planned effort. Haven’t you noticed? There is no war on the internet. No tally of soldiers lost valiantly defending www.apple.com. Everyone respects each others rights and visions online. Oh sure, you may disagree, and your welcome to, and thats your right. If someone has the right to post their opinions, you have every right to comment on them, but there never has been a war on the internet. No country has wanted to own the internet for themselves, and if we the developers of the net, are still alive and blogging, then they will never rob us of our home.
So many people are afraid of my passion,They’re afraid I’ll abuse my freedom. They’re afraid I use my knowledge to write viruses, or hack computers, but in reality, I do no such things. Its my freedom to do as I wish, and I wouldn’t abuse it for my life. If I ever did, I would never let myself set mouse down in that ordered evolving mediascape.
I use the term Mediascape as a way to describe the beauty of the internet. When one looks at a beautiful sweeping African Plain, they think wow, look at this beautiful landscape, and I see that too, when I’m in reality, but when I’m on the net, behind my screen, my landscape is a sweeping set of images and stories that tell of ones experiences in the sweeping plains of Africa. Therefore, since it is not merely capturing the image of the event, but the feelings, the sensations, the wonders, its all one constantly updating, evolving mediascape.
I guess, to wrap this up is to show you how you can help keep this amazing example of world peace going, and you can do that by one word. Contribute. Contribute to this Evolving Personalized Information Construct. Add to it, write interesting and though provoking articles that make people think. Take digital pictures of sweeping wildebeests in africa or whatever your passion it is and put it online, because there will come a day, when someone will control what you see, and I’ll be leading my fight to defend my intangible, invisible home, the Internet.
Sincerely,
Omega
(Thanks to Epic 2015 for their contributions as far as quotes and this image......)
Many people in this world have passions that are tangible. You can touch the artists sculpture, you can hear the musicians sound, but my passion is somewhat intangible and invisible. My passion is the internet. No matter where I am, home at my workstation with its silvery shine, the comforting sound of Mac OSX booting up out of its sleeping state, the prospects of being among others of my type, I can always reach it. Its my alter-ego, my alter-reality. After a stressful day in the reality here, I can disappear into the internet and get absorbed in a discussion with an Irish blogger over anything I want.
I guess its the fact that I can completely step away from reality when I’m there, I can be my alter ego, Omega, who makes podcasts, writes blogs and manages forums. I’m like some caped super-hero who all day is a typical American Student, but by night is some mysterious masked blogger. Its such a great feeling to know that there is a world beyond our current conceptions of the world. There is the internet, and that is a place where I’ve made my home.
I can call up any fact I need at will, whether to support my new anti-Microsoft theory or just to see what DID come first the chicken or the egg. (By the way it was a genetic mutation that created chickens from turkeys. But thats just my theory.) I hop in my favorite search engine and go for a ride. I’ve mastered the internet. I can do anything. But the best thing about the internet, is its freedom. There is no older presence preventing me from seeing, or creating or experiencing anything. I can do what I like, and no-one can stop me. No oppressive government, no site blockers, no parental controls, the internet is my construct, my neighborhood. The world is my neighborhood.
Not only does the internet have local effects, it has global effects. All these politicians and diplomats, sitting in congress and the UN, working on ways to share global peace. When indeed, they completely have missed global peace, sitting right under their monitors. The Internet. Yes thats correct, the internet is the only NON-PLANNED effort for global peace that has worked better than any planned effort. Haven’t you noticed? There is no war on the internet. No tally of soldiers lost valiantly defending www.apple.com. Everyone respects each others rights and visions online. Oh sure, you may disagree, and your welcome to, and thats your right. If someone has the right to post their opinions, you have every right to comment on them, but there never has been a war on the internet. No country has wanted to own the internet for themselves, and if we the developers of the net, are still alive and blogging, then they will never rob us of our home.
So many people are afraid of my passion,They’re afraid I’ll abuse my freedom. They’re afraid I use my knowledge to write viruses, or hack computers, but in reality, I do no such things. Its my freedom to do as I wish, and I wouldn’t abuse it for my life. If I ever did, I would never let myself set mouse down in that ordered evolving mediascape.
I use the term Mediascape as a way to describe the beauty of the internet. When one looks at a beautiful sweeping African Plain, they think wow, look at this beautiful landscape, and I see that too, when I’m in reality, but when I’m on the net, behind my screen, my landscape is a sweeping set of images and stories that tell of ones experiences in the sweeping plains of Africa. Therefore, since it is not merely capturing the image of the event, but the feelings, the sensations, the wonders, its all one constantly updating, evolving mediascape.
I guess, to wrap this up is to show you how you can help keep this amazing example of world peace going, and you can do that by one word. Contribute. Contribute to this Evolving Personalized Information Construct. Add to it, write interesting and though provoking articles that make people think. Take digital pictures of sweeping wildebeests in africa or whatever your passion it is and put it online, because there will come a day, when someone will control what you see, and I’ll be leading my fight to defend my intangible, invisible home, the Internet.
Sincerely,
Omega
(Thanks to Epic 2015 for their contributions as far as quotes and this image......)
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