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Google Creates First Cyber Planet: “Google-La”
Google has been laboring far too long in an old paradigm -- the Bill Gates model.
This paradigm is that of a “business”. Google for some time has been trying and succeeding quite well at becoming the world’s biggest business; and certainly the largest hi-tech corporation, and the world’s most cutting edge institution.
But in fact, the concept is way too small, far too limiting. What the leadership of Google has just realized is this: Google is not bound by any prior models of any sort, Google is an entity completely unique existing in a brand new plane of reality. Business and economics is embarrassingly old school, and belong in the age of smokestack factories and steamships and railroads. Silicon Valley and Bill Gates, as revolutionary as they were, are merely current extensions of the old mindset, of the old culture. They represent the limit of old behavior; and in a way are transitional between the moribund and new. But only Google has grasped its true identity and the true nature of this age.
Last week, Google formed “Google-La”, a complete cyber nation, with no ties to present physical and material national formations.
Google-La like the mythical Shangri-La is a realm that is thoroughly ethereal and dreamy. It is more a state of mind than a state of matter or soil or even flesh.
What Google has grasped is that a cyber-nation or virtual-nation or electronic-nation is an original and unique evolutionary leap in Human history. All other nations are retrograde fossils of a bygone age before the internet and computer.
In this new stage of social and psychological evolution, we are in a world with new rules totally different than the old conventions. Nations, governments, education, and economics are defunct concepts. Those in the new eon are not bound by the rules of an extinct society.
Now that Google-La has been created, one may ask, “Why stop at the concept of a nation?”
Yes, why not simply declare a Cyber-Planet? And then with a few advances in Wi-Fi, why not a Cyber-Solar System and then into the galaxy toward a true Cyber-Space? For a genuine Cyber-Space is infinite, eternal and without rules.
Why travel to Mars? It is likely a wasteland, as most of the cosmos is. And haven’t we already seen wastelands on earth, like Afghanistan for instance? And even if we do discover a primitive life on Mars, haven’t we already investigated this in many Hollywood movies?
Google now objects to the concept of “Virtual” as an idea that somehow reduces the significance of this cyber reality. This next reality is not virtual because this says that Google-La is an inferior, ephemeral copy of physical reality. The term “virtual” is an old paradigm word. However, according to Google, Google-La is the next evolutionary reality, a higher reality.
Google is calling this next stage, “Sur-reality”, from “sur-real” meaning above reality.
“Sub-reality” is the world of physical things which is actually inferior to Sur-reality. Sub-reality is the world of limited information, limited connection, limited creativity, limited ideas. In Sub-reality things break down and die, they require sweat and brawn to maintain, they are imperfect, slow and frustrating.
In Sur-reality we have instant connection, infinite data, real time communication in multiple media. This world is pure and infinite.
Sub-reality is at best a poor copy of Sur-reality. Much of Google’s vision parallels the thought of Plato who believed material reality was an imperfect and dim expression of a higher realm of pure ideas. This E-Platonism is the rising paradigm of this century. The internet will be the realm of superior information, communication, relationship, behavior and lifestyle.
Sub-reality is the zone of shadows, dim shadows of true reality and possibility. Sub-reality is the “Form’ while the internet is the true Ideal, the true Content. To E-Platonists mankind will walk out of its darkened cave into the bright binary light of thinking networks.
This realm will not be perfect but what Google holds dear is the notion of absolute perfection. Google will be the great “Demiurge” that constantly perfects cyber-space, as the infinite electronic artisan.
More, the “Unmoved Mover” from which all evolves is a force of purity and ideals. Additionally, it is a pure creativity that creates new rules and many new worlds simultaneously, for it is not bound by the old laws of one reality.
Then Truth in Sur-reality is whatever we imagine it. It pre-exists all physical reality in the vast internet computer brain. Descartes said, “I think, therefore I am”, Google says “I think, therefore it IS”.
In any case, whether you like Plato or not, you must agree that Google is on to something.
It should be noted that in Human evolution, we have had in the last 5000 thousand years a retreat into the mind. As our faculties have advanced, each individual has developed the capacity of abstract thought, philosophy, theology and much more. Generally speaking, we have come to live more and more in this upper realm. What Google points out is that Google-La and the internet is a second retreat into an ethereal realm also, into an electronic brain. As we evolve we enter more powerful and vast ethereal spaces.
In anticipation of objections, Google noted that, of course, Sur-reality requires elements of Sub-reality. It needs power, massive amounts of power. It needs electronic devices -- servers, drives and more. So another relation of the two planes of reality is that one is the “foundation” or “infra-structure” of the other. Much like the body is the infrastructure for the brain.
However, in scientific and evolutionary terms we are not at the stage where we can say a network of computers or an internet can substitute for a Human brain. The most Google, internet and computers can be today is a support to your brain, an assistant.
When the brain and new technologies both electronic and biological are merged, then we may speak of a cyber-space replacing a natural brain. Someday we may well inhabit a new “space” that is not physical at all. Brain data and behavior could be duplicated in an internet. We could then live in this new realm ala the Matrix. Perhaps even bodies may be discarded at some stage of evolution, or they will be hung on racks and used now and then for fun as “encounter suits”, who knows?
Then the Human race will live in unlimited realms and many manufactured worlds with rules unknown to physical nature. Then we will have many worlds to explore and build forever without limit.
But we are far from there. At this time, Google is an assistant to our primary device, the natural cerebral organ. So this watershed has not been reached except in Star Trek episodes.
However, Google is on the precipice of another evolutionary leap. We are at the stage of redefining community, nation and planet. Google-La is possible and probable.
The issue will be what purpose do these new societies serve? Who runs them? Where are they going to take us? And what will be the relation to present geographical, provincial, political and economic nations? Is one infrastructure and foundation to the other, who has priority?
Google-La like the ancient Shangri-La is a wonderful place. It is a total culture where all things happen – communication, relationships, work and entertainment. In Google-La one will not have to go anyplace else for needs or desires; all will be fulfilled.
The old paradigm of a business hinders this goal. Seeing itself as a business Google could not fully explore all the potential of a full internet existence. But by breaking from that identity, then Google can find a new kind of wealth making money, resources and power only secondary values.
Google-La can be a total culture; it can have a government and a constitution. It can produce a complete cyber-planet. It can have its own kind of economics too; its own money and bank.
Google-La could operate completely independent of current national jurisdictions. Google-La will be competing with dinosaurs such as the USA or Britain for citizenship and allegiance. Google-La could offer many, many worlds of lifestyle and values. And this world could be one of peace -- as long as citizens follow the golden rule of treating all as you would want yourself treated.
Conflicts will occur with Sub-reality as Google-La gains converts. Google hopes that the transition will be relatively peaceful.
Some are now calling this an “Internet Imperialism”. Saying Google is subjugating the nations of Sub-reality like an old superpower annexes colonies.
A Google-La spokesperson responded, “This is not annexation, this is Liberation from geographical imperialism. They keep turning things completely upside down! They are the Oppressors! Google-La is about freedom and escape.”
The only real threat that Google sees to its plans comes from the Bilderbergs, the secret organization, working on creating the New World Order.
But as the Google-La spokesperson explains, “The Bilderbergs are hopelessly stuck in the dead paradigm of Alexander the Great and Genghis Kahn and Machiavelli. These are ancient dreams of world domination. This is old school egotism and control. The Bilderbergs are trying to save Sub-reality by creating a One World System. But that world is dead already; it’s a sub-idea for the sub-brains of little sub-Napoleons.”
According to Google, just ignore all this Sub-reality spam from the New World Order. Hit the “Delete all” button, forget the “real world”, let’s create another “reality”, let’s create SUR-REALITY!
Visit Google-La, the Sur-reality that serves you!
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