...And Better Things
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This document discusses various topics around perception, time travel, social media, and reality. It notes that perception always comes between reality and ourselves, and maps are representations created by those who make them. Regarding time travel, it raises philosophical issues about replication versus replacement of oneself and determining which life is truly one's own. Social media is described as creating a room devoid of social context where people act without established relationships. Finally, it discusses concepts like heterotopia, simulacrum, and hyperreality in analyzing distorted perceptions of reality created by imitation and representations surpassing what is real.
...And Better Things
- 8. ...and Better Things Or, would a thawed out Walt Disney use Facebook?
- 9. Sidenote) Ce n'est pas rien
- 18. Sidenote) Ce n'est pas rien Map & Territory Relation Perception always intercedes between reality and ourselves What is on the paper map is a representation of the retinal representation of the man who made the map An infinite series of maps The Diary of Tristam Shandy, supertasks, NP
- 19. A) Halcyon (Beautiful Days)
- 41. A2) Stuck in the Tardis
- 42. A2) Stuck in the Tardis A couple things to note about time travel 1.One huge philosophical qualm 2. Replication vs. Replacement
- 43. A2) Stuck in the Tardis So you get bored one day, make a branch of yourself and send it back six months in time...
- 44. A2) Stuck in the Tardis You are now concurrently living two lives but which one is your life?
- 45. A2) Stuck in the Tardis Regaining singularity... 1. Rebase secondary onto master 2. Conflicts 3. Rewrite history
- 46. B) The Biggest Party Ever
- 66. B) The Biggest Party Ever Predicaments within Social Armageddon Who do you talk to? Who do you follow? How do you act in a room devoid of social context?
- 67. B) The Biggest Party Ever Character limits enforce transitory snippets Does not increase Social Capital In six years, would any of it make sense?
- 68. C) Looking glass, darkly
- 81. C) Looking glass, darkly "Welcome to the Hollywood that never was and always will be." - Michael Eisner Disney Hollywood Studios Orlando - 1989
- 82. C) Looking glass, darkly Heterotopia Capable of juxtaposing several spaces that are in themselves incompatible. Like a zoo, or a mirror. To dumb it down, absolutely real and unreal.
- 87. C) Looking glass, darkly Simulacrum leads to Hyperreality United States is heaven, history is a decoration, Colonialism was fun and those other people are cute, it would just be nice if they were more like us.
- 88. "We not only enjoy a perfect imitation, we also enjoy the conviction that imitation has reached its apex and afterwards reality will always be inferior to it."
- 89. B2) Zucking with You
- 90. C) Zucking with You Gilded Pastiche Ifwe only wanted to be happy it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, which is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are. Opposite of the news, hence the Like button Bullet-pointed, Disneyified lives
- 91. B2) Zucking with You We will look back and actually believe and internalize that all these events, and just these events, happened?
- 92. D) A Resolve
- 93. D) A Resolve Real thoughts, memories and ideas Not trumped down to bullet lists of activities We can be comfortable with being ourselves, whether ideal or otherwise Encourages and enables an open dialog for all of its members
- 94. <3 Thanks
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- #44: or however long, time isn&#x2019;t the issue here, even though it totally is\n
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- #46: blindly and selfishly have to rewrite history\n
- #47: I had a dream the other night that I was at a party with everyone I have ever met\n
- #48: This situation doesn&#x2019;t seem like a particularly troublesome one especially if you have seen Sixteen Candles or Can&#x2019;t Hardly Wait\n
- #49: this ideal party presents many problems, problems that go way beyond which Daft Punk album to play...\nThe correct answer here is probably Alive 2007. However, Discovery is in close second. This is a conversation for a later time.\nTake a moment to picture yourself at this party\n
- #50: Walking around the party you would see your uncle standing elbow to elbow with\n
- #51: your best friend, who is dancing with the girl from blue bottle with the goatee\n
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- #53: In another room, this douchebag from high school is playing sex dice\n
- #54: while your aunts sip a bottle of Frangellico\n
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- #56: Meanwhile, your boss is playing Wii Tennis with your neighbor\n
- #57: and the girl you had a crush on in college\n
- #58: This fact is particularly problematic for me, as that girl is a raging alcoholic. There is no doubt that this would cause a lot of tension with the fellow partygoers. However, this may just be the least of my concerns.\n
- #59: And this whole thing goes on but it doesn&#x2019;t get much better\n
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- #62: and your ex-girlfriend is eating frosting with your best friend\n
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- #70: I went to disneyworld in 2005\n
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- #72: Displays an astounding talent for mimicry.\n
- #73: If you've ever been outside America, this is mostly just insulting.\n
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- #76: Half the pavilions have no cultural content at all. The Morocco complex is just souvenir stores selling carpets and fezzes.\n
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- #80: Suburban tourists view travel abroad as basically a chance to shop for regionally themed trinkets, which is perfect\n
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- #83: "the place that I occupy when I look at myself in the glass at once absolutely real and absolutely unreal"\n
- #84: 1) see space in the mirror\n2) see myself in the mirror\n3) deduct that you are absent from your place\n4) As a virtual person in the mirror, I see myself in real space\nrecurse\n
- #85: Cliff & New Orleans\n
- #86: Watering down facts, sanitizing and restating\n\n
- #87: Real birds + fake sounds of birds, it is difficult to tell what is real\n\n
- #88: simulucra, likeness of an object without it&#x2019;s contents or weight\n
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- #94: Facebook and Twitter are the McDonald&#x2019;s drive-thrus of social communication. We all need to sit at a table and eat some plants.\n
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