I'm going to reply to the idea surrounding avatars.
People are being controlled by others, just look at how we are all addicted to television and pop culture.
In a way famous people are living out the lives of others through sharing thoughts, I tend to refer to them as viruses, or trojan horses.
They work much in the same way, you get someone to like an idea, implant it into their own mind and integrate it into their daily lives, then they execute it by remembering the idea/program every single day.
Like for example, if a small child is sitting down and watching television, and he sees a stunt car racer on television, he will instantly associate excitement and fun towards doing dangerous things and will want to become a stunt car racer when he grows up.
Its the exact same pathway that is used in computers when someone is infected with a virus or trojan.
Only in the first time in our existence have we been so helpelessly intertwined with the lives of a few people on our entire planet, and that can lead to severe manipulative tactics going on. If it wasnt for television and hollywood I wouldnt be suprised if we would have ever gotten out of the 1940s.
Frankly I think the 1800s-1940s is an ok place to live, it gives each individual human being on the planet a place to live in peace and harmony without conflicting or new ideas being enforced upon many from just a few people.
Radio wasnt really all that big of a deal when you think about it, people made it a big of a deal when they started listening to science fiction, for example when the war of the worlds broadcast was aired and everybody thought there was genuinely alien spacecraft landing on our planet killing everyone.
But that was the limit to the hysteria.
With television you have entire nations on knife edge, ready willing and able to go to war with one another over a single terrorist attack. I fully respect what happened on 9/11, but without television the rest of the world would have more than likely not gone along with the plan to invade the middle east.
It was used against us.
Yes with radio we had propaganda out the wazoo surrounding WW2, but there were more people willing to doubt the material, the level of control over people was less than it would have been with television.
With my life for example, I like to limit the amount of control that other people have over me, which is why I apsolutley hate watching television, and other peoples personal opinions are typically heavily scrutinised aswell. Other peoples thoughts and ideas can actually be very dangerous to my psychology, and its my psychology its not their damn play thing.
My personality is my own, its not someone elses, I decide what is let in at any point in time. most people however are willing to let anybody just walk in and do whatever they want to to their minds. those kinds of people scare me
This doesnt mean that I'm not open to new ideas, the new ideas are just put into a sandbox, thats the whole idea being the feelings of "doubt" and "mistrust" that I have over new people, its a way to control the thoughts without integrating them into my psychology.
Edited by Layberinthius, 11 November 2013 - 12:38 AM.