Sunday, October 7, 2007

Some new thoughts

It is definitely getting harder and harder to get out of the system (i mean, mostly authoritarian system like politics and economics) because the survival of self is getting challenged. The movie code 46 shows the obvious comparison between being inside and outside of the system. Since it is more technology dominated society than even now, most of the individual profiles are kept in the record, and their traces are tracked. When an individual deny to provide the information to the system, he or she is losing the right to participate inside of the system.
The living outside of the system requires a person give up lots of things that a civilization offers. There is no production going on outside, means that there's no job. There's no protection or law. Most of the rule is based upon survival of each individual, but the self organization is not successful since most of them are pretty emotional. It can get tired and dangerous outside of the system.

What is the benefit of being outside, or invisible to the system? The control from the system requires its members to give up certain part of their freedom. Achieving pure freedom and free will is impossible. Here's the question then. What is priority of the value? The ability to achieve pure freedom under the challenged environment, or compromise some of the freedom to acquire the full access to the benefit from the system? Is anarchy a model that can substitute the idea of system?

The benefit of being out of system is though, than the system can be reanalyzed in a different perspective. If that perspective comes back to the existing system, it will recontextualize itself inside of the system....

I'd like to look into what it takes to be anonymous in the contemporary system, and what kind of surveillance is being developed. The idea of electronic transaction in the economic system, or machine tracking system in the process of productions are types of surveillance. On the other hand, people in different class of society, like most wanted from FBI or homeless people are voluntarily or involuntarily out of system, means that they are anonymous and invisible to the system. Is this idea can be represented in some way? Is this research going somewhere that actually requires design decision? I am not sure now but hopefully it works out. :)

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