Thursday, September 13, 2012

Why Women Will Rule the World

The infographic says it all.  Still an analysis of such a claim deserves an explanation.  What is the overall premise of Jurassic Park?  Man creates something he cannot control.  In essence, the conflict truly lies not with Man vs. Dinosaur, but Man vs. his own bloody potential.  A potential to create something he has no real way of controlling.  Doesn’t seem like digital culture?  Think internet privacy rights, copyright infrigment, Napster, the dot com companies.  The internet was created and released into its tropical amusement park by a bunch of John Hammonds with a God complex.  Little did they know soon it would learn to have little problem babies and figure out how to open doors.
            In Jurassic Park, the problems start slow.  The dinosaurs originally sneak off to a small coastal area of Costa Rico and eat a baby.  Just one baby.  I mean, I’m not trying to down play the death of a fictional infant, but one baby isn’t a disatster.  Digital culture had just a couple problems in the beginning too.  Who could have known the Turkey raptors would soon become T-rexes?  Al Gore would probably say he could have, but that’s about it.  Besides, when you just finish up the crisis of facing a nuclear war, cyber problems don’t seem too bad.  But the internet has mutated into a thing of its own, unpolicable by the world.  And to be truthful, I don’t know if I want Big Brother putting his big thumb of censorship in my face.  In essence, we face the same problems as John Hammond.  Do we really want to destroy the dinosaurs, to take away the power we’ve already experienced?  Because in the end, the issue really comes back to us fighting our own selves.

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