PetalswiththeWind 10/03/06

We are alien to each other, that is why we are trying to extinct one another;
We are killing self;
Self-inflicted suicide, one another, each other, our brothers, all genders aside, “man” to “man”, we bleed we die;
We are killing self;
We die in the exact identical arms, and feel the same loss for human life.
Or do we?
We are killing self!
Forget about the melanin, that’s militant, ideally contrived, neglecting the inside.
So deep deep, inside, where the connective veins lie, and find that royal blood blue in everyone!
The human spectrum creates the pieces of the puzzle, thus, when applied paints a picture of a whole!

Future theorist, Robbie, made a great observation in class on Poster’s comparison of the telephones, “decentralized quality and its universal exchangeability of the positions of sender and receiver”, to that of the internet (535). The internet gives the “power” back to the masses versus the opinions of the perceived experts. Experts who only simulate a position of authority since having the only access to national or global broadcasting vehicles; automatically giving them control to what messages are perpetuated to the masses. Thus, the default positions of the listeners are that of amateurs; for the “Box Gods” can only be heard and can not hear what their audience has to say. The spectators did not have the same opportunity as the voices coming from the radio, television, film screen, or even the print ads, where as the internet finally gives everyone a chance to have the same position of influence. The internet is beginning to erase the constructed lines of the hierarchal order. Poster puts it best when saying, “Technology has taken a turn that defines the character of power of modern government” (537).

Through FCC restrictions the government is able to dominate the vehicles of mass communication and how it affects their audience. The function of the internet as a “superhighway” has weakened the strength of those restrictions. With the spreading of knowledge, comes the disbursement of authority, thus the individualization of power. Threatening the existence of power as the world knows it. Must there be repression and oppression in order for there to be power? Maybe, tyrannical power needs boundaries and limitations in order to reign. Government reaction to the profound transformation of information is as if there is not enough power or good fortune to be globally distributed, true equality. Hmmm, who’s being greedy here? What about individual empowerment, where no one impedes in another’s space!