The answer to all the questions, well not really, but I do try, =)

Why "must the system be first?" Shouldn't the people how made the system, well people in general be first? I do agree with Carr, the human brain has become "an outdated computer that needs a faster processor." So much information is thrown at people throughout a normal day that it is hard to even remember what someone told you that morning. Have you heard that people only remember the first thing they are told in a day? (Or something like that) That is why there are commercials, we need a break to have our brains register what we just watched. Vonnegut made a good decision by making the chapters of his book Cat's Cradle so short-he wanted to keep the masses interested and not have them give up on his book because they couldn't concentrate. Google has not helped us. It gives people information right away, I know this may sound like a nice thing, but people do not go out and search for information on their own now. And how do we know if the information given by Google is correct? It is easy to change info by just hacking someone's site.

Taylor wanted "the gradual substitution of science for the rule of thumb thoughout the mechnic arts." His concpet would bring about "a utpoia of perfect efficiency." So science can make everything perfect? Taylor must have been crazy. How can something that can cause so much harm towards the human race, humanity, the planet, the universe help create a perfect utopia. A perfect Utopia should not/would not include science in general.

So I went off a little. So I agree with Carr, the human race has a short attention span that is/was caused by the advancements of technology and Google has helped this along by having this technology andinformation right at someone's fingertips.

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Philosophy Now

One of the main things that stuck out was the article in general. The entire last paragraph of the article remnded me so much of Brave New World-when john asks the Deltas if they "like being babies?..mewling and puking." Will or has this rapid growth of information and technology actually suspended the human race from achieving anything or has it advanced it?

Another thing that popped out to me from the article and video was how much information is being created. That we need to absorb more and more knowledge/information to get ahead/survive this world is distrubing. The concept of being able to make more room in one's brain to store more information is just crazy; we are not computers! We have become reliable on computers for such easy tasks.

Also, another main thing that I may have mentioned, but already forgot to talk about is how computers have taken over out lives. Well I have talked about it, but here is more. How many of us have a myspace, facebook, twitter(which is the wierdest of them all), or any other networking? How many times do you go on the internet? WE ARE ON THE INTERNET TO TALK ABOUT HOW THE "ADVANCEMENT" OF TECHNOLOGY HAD TAKEN OVER OUR LIVES. I think that the concept of a computer being smarter than the average human brain (what exactly is average?) is creepy. HAS ANYBODY EVER SEEN THE TERMINATOR MOVIES?! I think that technology has helped us, we have achieved so much because of it, but where is it leading to? Will we rely on technology for everything in a few years? Look how much stuff has advanced in the last 10 years, 5 years, heck 1 year! What will happen if we continue to rely on something that may eventually be smater than us?

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Cat's Cradle Chs. 1-7

Cat's Cradle clearly has postmodernism ideas in it. Vonnegut's writing style shows the characters craziness with his random hops from topic to topic.

Bokonism is a major factor of the book that seems to have postmocdernist ideas. How can a religion that outwardly states that it is false, that there is no truth to it an have followers. Bokonists know that what they believe in is made up of lies, yet they can not help but live/follow its rules. This reflects the idea of the postmodern idea of holding two contradictive thoughts at once.

Felix Hoeniker and John definitly bleed postmodernism. Felix is clearly indiffernet to any morals that the rest of us seem to have. For example when the topic of sin comes up, Felix replies "what is sin?" To judge right from wrong, one must be able to have some type of morals, but Felix does not have this. Postmodernism has a notion that there is no such thing as absolute truth; this goes with Felix's negation towards any morals.

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In my essay about Brave New World, I am going to talk about the different societies that are present in brave new world, the savages, and the society in which the alphas are part of. I will also talk about the background from which Aldous Huxley comes from. I want to see why Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World, which part(s) of his life influenced it. I will use a source that has the definition of society in it. If I am to write an essay about societies I should know what exactly a society is. I will also use another source that talks about/has information about Aldous Huxley. If I am to write an essay about the society in which Huxley lived and why he wrote the book, I would need to know about all of his life. (Wow that last part sounded a bit creepy). The last source I would use is Brave New World, of course, it is what the essay is about.

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My internet is finally working!

So I am going to post all of the stuff that I have missed because of my crazy internet. The blog about my essay, well since I already finished my essay, is well wierd, but i will still do it, it is an assignment. The other ones are about Cat's Cradle and other stuff. So i better get started.

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