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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