Many say that the Internet makes reality complicated. They long for a clear story that tells what is good and what is bad.
In fact, the Internet makes reality better understandable. Because realityis not a clear story that can be understood in the categories of good and evil.
Reality is more like the Internet. It is immeasurably large, chaotic, complicated and fascinating. New perspectives can be found on every corner.
When you treat the Internet like a story, it inevitably looks like a very bad story: chaotic, complicated and confusing.
Don’t treat the Internet as a story because it’s not a story – just like reality!
Viele sagen, dass das Internet die Realität kompliziert macht. Sie sehnen sich zurück nach der klaren Geschichte, die erzählt was gut und was schlecht ist.
Tatsächlich macht das Internet die Realität verständlicher. Denn die Realität ist keine klare Geschichte, die sich in den Kategorien Gut und Böse verstehen lässt.
Die Realität ist eher wie das Internet. Unermesslich groß, chaotisch, kompliziert und faszinierend. Neue Perspektiven finden sich an jeder Ecke.
Wenn Du das Internet wie eine Geschichte behandelst, sieht es unweigerlich aus wie eine schlechte Geschichte: chaotisch, kompliziert und verwirrend.
Verstehe das Internet nicht als Geschichte, denn es ist keine Geschichte – genau wie die Realität
Why one group of people does not get what an other group of people says
LIFE ACCORDING TO KORSAKOW #4 Miss Understanding
This episode is in English.
We live in a divided time. There seem to be two groups of people that have very different perception of reality. Most likely you are yourself member of one of these groups. Most likely you never consciously decided to be in one or the other group, it just happened. And most of your friends happen to be in the same group.
Your family: not so much. Like most people, you have family members, that are in the other group, you know, whom I am talking about: it is that uncle/sister/nephew that you avoid talking about politics/religion/life, because he/she never gets it. And you never get, what he/she says.
This podcast explains why.
And as a bonus it will let you see how humankind will develop.
Enjoy!
Music by Jim Avignon / Neoangin and Ilja Pollach, Cologne.
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Why one group of people does not get what an other group of people says
LIFE ACCORDING TO KORSAKOW #4 Miss Understanding
This episode is in English.
We live in a divided time. There seem to be two groups of people that have very different perception of reality. Most likely you are yourself member of one of these groups. Most likely you never consciously decided to be in one or the other group, it just happened. And most of your friends happen to be in the same group.
Your family: not so much. Like most people, you have family members, that are in the other group, you know, whom I am talking about: it is that uncle/sister/nephew that you avoid talking about politics/religion/life, because he/she never gets it. And you never get, what he/she says.
This podcast explains why.
And as a bonus it will let you see how humankind will develop.
Recently I had a number of encounters with a group of people that I find absolutely fascinating. In fact they are so amazing, so bright, so intelligent, so knowledgeable and at the same time so humble, that to me they feel like a new breed of humankind. I met them in Germany where I live, in Mexico, in the States (places where I recently traveled), I find them on the internet. Those people are well educated open minded young adults, up to 25 years of age. Those are humans that grew up in the time of digital. Kids that, while their brains were assembled did not exercise in watching TV (as I did) but exercised in playing computer-games and using the internet.
Gonzalo Álvarez at Vertice Transmedia Conference in Mexico-City, Oct, 2018
I was never a gamer, but I realized early on, that if you practice playing computer games, it must be a different kind of practice for the brain and therefor lead to a different wiring of the brain, that leads to a different kind of thinking. And I said 15 years ago, that when these kids are grownups, they will be able to think thoughts, that we might not even be able to understand, but those thoughts will be amazing. Those kids grew up now. You meet them at conferences, they deliver papers, they become visible by expressing themselves making music, uploading stuff to YouTube (for sure they become visible at more places, these are just the places I find them).
What makes them so fantastic is the effortlessness how they seem to be able to connect different bits of information from various fields of expertise. They seem not to be bound by the borders of particular areas of thinking. They are open-minded to an extend that I was not, when I was their age (and I always considered myself to be an open-minded person). Those kids are beautiful and it is sheer pleasure to watch them think.
Those kids know, what they don’t know and they are not afraid say that. I remember being that age and I was so full of myself. I knew, what I knew and that was a lot and in certain fields often times more than the elders. But I was not able to see what I don’t know and it took me many, many years to learn.
And because those kids that know so much, also know, what they don’t know, they are not afraid to ask others for help. This way they are able to collaborate in a way that I never was and maybe never will be.
I am not sure if all the kids are like that. Probably not. Maybe there are those kids that TV loves to portrait so often: The casualties of the digital, the kids that live in their parents’ basement, play computer games, smoke weed and suffer depression.
I personally never met one, but of course that does not mean they don’t exist. Those kids don’t show up at conferences or ask me for an interview. Certainly, I am just talking about the top of the iceberg. But the young top of the iceberg is so much more impressive than the top of the iceberg when I was young!
