We now all "live" in a tower of babble/babel created by our language games. Or using another metaphor a collective hive-mind which has its own unstoppable momentum.
All of the participants in (for example) an ant of bee hive mind unconsciously perform their pre-programmed function within the hive. Functions which are probably triggered by subtle chemical triggers. Each participant performs its function then drops dead, with no consequence to the hive.
The human situation is essentially the same. Everyone (without exception) unconsciously performs their socially constructed role/function.
Every body dies but the hive automatically produces more and more replicants - the Beat Goes On
Even the seeming renegades, dropouts or those who embrace something like the Benedict Option are just a part of the hive mind too (even if they pretend otherwise).
Very few even begin to question the "logic" of their pattern-driven predicament.
Malvina Reynolds summed up the situation in her popular song Little Boxes, Little Boxes Made Out of Ticky-Tacky, Little Boxes All The Same.
Thanks for commenting. I don't actually agree with this, not because I think it's wrong in every single particular, but because I think your premise is largely self-negating. If what you're saying is true, then your comment can be disregarded as just another mechanistic product of the "bee hive mind". On your own terms, it would be just another ineffectual expression of your own programming and conditioning. But, of course, I don't think that's what it is. I think you made a meaningful statement of something you believe(d) and that it is not merely the product of social automata or mindless conditioning. When we dismiss human interaction as robotic or mechanistic, we are effectively sawing off the branch we ourselves are sitting on. That's because some belief in substantive free agency is a necessary precondition for any meaningful dialog. I like your choice of the tower of Babel, btw. I have long thought that it is particularly instructive regarding our current moment. I keep a list of ideas for posts I want to write, and Babel is one of the things I would like to write about at some point.
We now all "live" in a tower of babble/babel created by our language games. Or using another metaphor a collective hive-mind which has its own unstoppable momentum.
All of the participants in (for example) an ant of bee hive mind unconsciously perform their pre-programmed function within the hive. Functions which are probably triggered by subtle chemical triggers. Each participant performs its function then drops dead, with no consequence to the hive.
The human situation is essentially the same. Everyone (without exception) unconsciously performs their socially constructed role/function.
Every body dies but the hive automatically produces more and more replicants - the Beat Goes On
Even the seeming renegades, dropouts or those who embrace something like the Benedict Option are just a part of the hive mind too (even if they pretend otherwise).
Very few even begin to question the "logic" of their pattern-driven predicament.
Malvina Reynolds summed up the situation in her popular song Little Boxes, Little Boxes Made Out of Ticky-Tacky, Little Boxes All The Same.
Thanks for commenting. I don't actually agree with this, not because I think it's wrong in every single particular, but because I think your premise is largely self-negating. If what you're saying is true, then your comment can be disregarded as just another mechanistic product of the "bee hive mind". On your own terms, it would be just another ineffectual expression of your own programming and conditioning. But, of course, I don't think that's what it is. I think you made a meaningful statement of something you believe(d) and that it is not merely the product of social automata or mindless conditioning. When we dismiss human interaction as robotic or mechanistic, we are effectively sawing off the branch we ourselves are sitting on. That's because some belief in substantive free agency is a necessary precondition for any meaningful dialog. I like your choice of the tower of Babel, btw. I have long thought that it is particularly instructive regarding our current moment. I keep a list of ideas for posts I want to write, and Babel is one of the things I would like to write about at some point.