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America Ripe for A Scientific Revolution

Offspring to the World Wide Web of vast and seemingly endless information for the general public, The children of information have awoken. They garnered the sufficient amount of data to know it has been wronged as they slept. But the time for American dreams and slumber are over, the time for awakening is now.

Take It A Few Steps Back

Most of the users who set trends on tumblr’s different communities seem to have aligning ideas and [most] believe in science over belief while those that express negativity and irrationality are met with less attention. So in a way it’s like a self correction organism that aims to communicate information and imagery and grow larger as the diversity grows. Mainstream media has been doing such a poor job at delivering information and genuine entertainment that people have turned to other means. Most of what current media offers could be considered as psychologically damaging to oneself and many understand this, people are beginning to think for themselves thus choose for themselves, choose what they want to watch, listen, read, and find important as opposed to having a box tell them.

So when you have a large group of influential people constantly feeding a mass group of interested users you’re essentially like a teacher to them, and that information continues to echo to the groups that follow those within your own group but it also leaves room for everyone to communicate equally with everyone else. You have your personality, your traits, likes, dislikes, so when this group each in their own decisions choose to provide useful information on an almost daily or weekly basis that’s a lot of learning! Do not undermine the capacity and power of easily accessible information left uncensored, look no further than Wikileaks.

Wikileaks might have been one of the largest organizations communicating valuable, worth knowing information. In this, people started gaining their trust back into technology, as we saw from assemblies as they agreed in unison what seemed right and wrong looking at these new founds truths provided by Wikileaks and many other sister sites that stemmed from it. The public now had an ease of access to valuable information of all sorts and a way to connect to one another through this digital web.

Tumblr: Setting Large Trends, Memes, Acting as Communications Beacon

What is the general purpose of communicating? To express information for others to receive and process (understand). So when tumblr went from this underground blogging site to a well known and largely talked about website so did its communications range. I compare Tumblr to rising up from examples of 4chan and its heavily community inspired, ease of access and anonomity imageboards I too was and sometimes still am a part of. 4chan’s userbase was gigantic to say the least, but it lacked one thing, compassion. While it brought in hordes of users who enjoyed mischief but many that also loved to discuss, debate and intellectually argue within these grounds, I’d say this acted as a training field for many.

It was purely uncensored, democratic, hardly monitored intellectual conversations of everything and sometimes completely childish ones about nothing. But as I said, it lacked compassion. That missing piece was enforced due to the anonymity, since you are anonymous, and say you’re intentions are wrong, you’re more likely to put down another person or incite negative reactions out of them just for the sake of trolling. Which showed in the ways anti-women and “make me a sandwich” jokes arose from. So in this, 4chan failed to tap into a larger piece of the internet community.

Then you had blogger, which lacked what 4chan had; an ease of access community. 2 to 3 clicks away and you’re already communicating with thousands on the imageboard, getting whatever message you have in mind out there. And if it’s well put and rational enough it goes into discussion. On the other hand, Blogger was a great way for one to show who they were without societal filters and even distribute various types of info like news, media, arts, music, documents, etc.

Combine these two and erase the weaknesses and you have tumblr. An ease of access blogging community site with a 3+ billion userbase. It allowed for people to express themselves and their concerns, giving them a voice. It allowed for groups to organize under a common cause. And as the community grew, so did the distribution of progressive information. In this, it allowed for more compassionate groups of people leaving space for community activism.

The Two Webs

The web of Nature: As many of us who have read up on a lot of science or at least a considerable amount, you tend to notice intricate patterns throughout nature. Patterns that range from visuals, to chemicals, to cosmically and it’s no different when dealing with how plants and animals communicate with another. For instance, there was a science article I read not too long ago that made scientific connections showing how plants and fungi have their own communications web, the fungi and mushrooms act as distributors to plants and those that try to cheat and get more than what they’re supposed to have are met with even less nutrients and minerals.

One of the biggest underground markets on the planet — nutrient trading between plant roots and fungi — turns out to run on a system of reciprocal rewards for good suppliers and less business for bad ones.

“It may have taken 450 million years to evolve,” says Toby Kiers of VU University Amsterdam, “but unlike most human markets, here we have an example in which cheaters actually get punished and the good guys get rewarded.”[via Plants and fungi recognize generous trading partners]

Reading things like this makes it much easier to stop and say, why not look at what nature has been doing for millions of years in order to benefit our own well-being? It seems to be working rather splendid for them and they don’t go all out in destroying their habitat in the process of living off of it. Has nothing to do with being a hippie or environmentalist or activist (not that there’s anything wrong in any of these) but it’s just a simple natural rule of being courteous otherwise you’ll put a hole in the boat your on. We have a finite planet, thus require systems that do not depend on finite resources. We clearly have the ingenuity, creativity, technology and artistic ability to live under said healthy conditions that do not undermine our limited resources.

The human web: This one needs no real referencing as we can look at our personal experiences to note how the world wide web has drastically changed the playing field for the citizens that were once silenced. With the internet, we now control how bits and information gets passed and how to perceive it, giving us leverage on what to deem wrong by a new, more consciously awake society. The internet helped us, the average people to act like the fungi and plant roots in nature and control the bad players while rewarding the good ones. A system built for and by its constituents.

With this coming awakening and more and more attention being placed on the scientists and rational speakers, we’re clearly heading towards a wonderful and unexplored canvas that is the age of a Scientific Revolution brought forth by uncensored data. You see it all around you now, people are waking up, the 99% is a direct creation from all of this spilled data for all of us to see and understand and make our own judgments on how important or unimportant it is.

A canvas ripe for a child to explore, but also a canvas ripe for scientists, educators and artists to thrive if they know how to gear this in the right direction. This could very well lead to the scientific society most of us only dreamed of. A new found mass faith and belief in the logical, sensible, rational and compassionate rather than blind faith as we have seen where it leads economically, what it does socially, and the minorities it undermines globally. Time to wake up, I see science knocking on our door. #OccupyandTakeTheWorld

(via ikenbot)