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Just stop going online for a while. Or less each day.

And stop reading the viral crap...take it for what it is...modern day national inquirer.

If you can't stop, it's an addiction and time to go see a shrink.

That would be the equivalent of a modern day Rip Van Winkle.

http://youtu.be/XggxeuFDaDU

It's not me I'm worried about. I'm thinking of sociology and the madness of crowds. I'm thinking of the possibility that the human race has a resonant frequency.

Good thread. I'm in tech but def will unplug and move into the mountains at some point after sorting out job and family. I don't think you have to lose the internet, but drastically reduce the overall sensory load which IMO is responsible for a lot of the issues we observe in children and adults these days. Mankind has always adapted to changes in form and speed of technology and will continue to do so, but the velocity of change had increased so much that natural adaptation has fallen behind. I believe it overall to be healthy to unplug.

I could never give up the internet. I've become a genius reading Patnet comments.

I never go on the internet. This is me doing telepathy.

Just don't watch the news, they make their money on selling the lurid.

deepcgi says

I'm thinking of the possibility that the human race has a resonant frequency.

Good way to put what I often ponder myself.

deepcgi says

I'm thinking of the possibility that the human race has a resonant frequency.

But only if you remember the batteries.

humans (specifically our brains) are not 24x7 - so it doesn't make sense for us to have always-on information servers for quick hits. one trick to help out, is to charge a mobile device and then stop using it when the battery runs out. don't pick it up again until the next day. that way you have acquired some units of energy and will need to ration/prioritize.

Resistance is futile.

You will be assimilated.

deepcgi says

Has anyone else noticed the bridge beginning to oscillate and crumble due to our nearly instantaneous info exchange.

50 years ago, people said the same thing about television. 100 years ago, radio.

It's not radio, t.v., the Internet, social networking, etc. It's what you do with the media. If you watch junk television, then television is junk. If you use junk Internet sites, then the Internet site.

It's like the woman who says "all guys are assholes". In reality, it's not that men suck; it's that her taste in men sucks. All the guys she dates are assholes.

Same thing goes for all media. There are plenty of things that are awesome and fulfilling on television and the Internet. Here are a few:

1. The Universe
2. Cosmos
3. Connections
4. Human Genome Project
5. NOVA
6. Educational videos on YouTube
7. MIT Open Courseware
8. Free Science Online
9. Open Yale Courses
10. Open Education Consortium
11. Wolfram MathWorld
12. What's Special about this Number?
13. Plus Magazine
14. Live Science
15. Atom Builder
16. The Foresight Institute
17. Evil Mad Scientitst (It's really only about good, I swear!)
18. The Richard Dawkins Foundation
19. Track bills in Congress, voting records, etc.
20. On the Issues

And I haven't even touched on technology.

So don't unplug the Internet. Unplug the crap from the Internet and keep using the good parts. Even if only one in a thousand websites are good, that's still 64,000 websites according to Netcraft, more than a person could possibly visit. So there is no dearth of valuable and interesting material online.

It may seem like an aside to the topic, but quantum encryption may yet change my outlook on technology. The more I am involved with and come to accept effectively unbreakable encryption, the more it becomes clear that private conversations, thoughts, schemes, and points-of-view may yet again be possible. I can filter out the excessive noise and forge an Internet artistically in my own image rather than some cat named Pete with fast typing paws.

It's like looking at a page of noise without the filtered glasses. There is a hidden picture of Elvis in there if you've got the right shades. But the dynamic range of the noise at today's level doesn't just hide one image, it may hide any image I can conceive.
I foresee a day soon where some apparently brilliant scientist puts on the right Oakley's and sees a message from beyond in the microwave background radiation of the universe - and that his "discovery" changes the world, because that "image" has apparently existed for billions of years.

Death of search engines in favor of FILTERING? That would ruin the machinations of the key masters of the Internet wouldn't it? :-)

As long as there is a defined distance a winner can be declared.

deepcgi says

I'm thinking of the possibility that the human race has a resonant frequency.

This is why I always disable automatic updates....

landtof says

humans (specifically our brains) are not 24x7 - so it doesn't make sense for us to have always-on information servers for quick hits.

speak for yourself...

jazz music says

Maybe most of us can relate to the feeling of being milked daily by too many different masters.

http://www2.stetson.edu/~efriedma/numbers.html

Awesome.

A few more:
Khan Academy
Coursera
OpenSecrets.org
Free Software Foundation

deepcgi says

stop oscillating with viral news stories I'm being programmed to respond to.

this makes sense to me. the same stories get published over and over, designed to push the same buttons and justify one unspoken subtext or another, not to communicate anything important.

but i haven't unplugged, i just dumped facebook and most of the mainstream news. instead i poke around satellite views of the earth and look through wikipedia, read about mass psychology and developments in techology and encryption and money (bitcoin), and think about where things might be going.

Isn't this the core of the Elliot Wave?

I don't know how you can expect the full benefit of the tautology if you unplug?

100 years ago Edward Bernays convinced us all that bacon eggs are what is for breakfast, I'm thinking today they might be able to do better? What does Madison ave do now?

Is it AF trying to convince everyone it is face?

When you think about it reality by definition is what is agreed to. If you have notions otherwise your sanity is called into question.

deepcgi says

Not going off the grid. I'm a big fan of electricity and air conditioning and grocery stores

The first 2 can still be enjoyed OTG.

The latter is the tricky bit. I've been housesitting again in the Santa Cruz mountains this month and I gotta say this is a pretty good bug-out base.

Capitola/Santa Cruz has a Costco, two Trader Joes, two Whole Foods. My friend is letting me use his EV again (he traded in the Leaf for a Rav4) so I can hit the stores and never have to worry about gas stations, too. Yesterday I drove over the hill to the Fry's in Campbell and still had 50 miles of range when I got back.

One of the business ideas I have is a Trader Joes delivery service, just like this guy:

http://priceonomics.com/the-man-who-smuggles-traders-joes-into-canada/

to enable me to live anywhere I wanted (like Japan or Oregon) and still have the grocery angle covered.

But I hear ya about news BS. I lived in Japan in the 1990s and the first 3 years were before the internet, I got Netscape the summer of 1995 so before that my exposure to US news was on the order of minutes per month, mainly through a Time magazine or an English-language newspaper.

One thing I resolved a year or two ago was to stop arguing with idiots. That helps a lot.

instead i poke around satellite views of the earth and look through wikipedia,

I do this too, LOL. My favorite is exploring Germany's east front in Russia, and this past week I've been on a british history binge, from the post-Romans to the Plantagenets.

Kingmaker the board game was patented in the 1970s which means its in the public domain now, LOL.

So, not just about the guitar?

deepcgi says

Too many words. Too many ads. Too many fast edits. Am I alone in this?

i hate all these motherfuckers on the internet

see before the internet was created, you just built a wall or something and you didnt have to listen to all these lying dumb fucks pushing their stupid selfish agenda.

the entire net has become non stop SHIT from all directions.