How influential is the internet?

The Internet. It's ubiquitous. Everyone is advertising on it. You old friend from high school has a facebook, your priest or paster has a google plus, you list old junk you never used on eBay, hoping someone will buy it. And you just snagged that awesome T-shirt on amazon. These are just some of the things the Internet allows you to do. There is no debate that it is a great tool.

But, like all tools, can be used as a weapon. Many people, in the rush to get on the Internet and use it, have put themselves out to such an extent that anyone with a decent knowledge of Internet usage can steal their information and take there identity and scatter to the four winds of the earth, allowing anyone and their brother to take it. But these are not even the most scary things that the Internet opens up. As more and more machines are using it and more and institutions use it for official purposes, it becomes a virtual version of real life. What does that mean? Does it mean skynet? Or the matrix? Or I,Robot? No, I do not think that any of these are realistic versions of the future. As much as I am a fan of dystopia, the real world is not always distopian.

The real world is a combination of both. I do not want to say that my experience as a person has been broad, because in all reality, it hasn't. But neither can I say that I am ignorant of the world as a whole. Life has always been moments of triumph or bliss, and moments of failure and despondence. The Internet gives voice to these things and solidifies them in time. Preserves so we can go back and look at them. So how does this make the Internet influential you ask?

It makes the Internet influential because we can remember things that are usually forgotten. The Internet captures humour, pain, despair, happiness and the mundane business of everyday life all in its servers. Whether through memes, or blogs, or facebook, twitter, tumblr, websites, clouds and all the other stuff that gives the Internet is influence. It has influence on us because it is our past. Our legacy preserved in 1's and 0's. We, as a whole race, are remembering ourselves. And this is why the Internet with its powerful influence on this next generation, will either bring human kind to the apex of its history, or take us into the blackest age we will ever know.

Choose what you remember wisely.

What is "pop culture"?

Pop culture is a shortened version of the word popular culture, meaning it is the most popular form of culture at the moment.

Pop culture has changed over the years, and as obvious as it sounds, it is a deeper change then when first looked at.

Things thay were once shunned by media and mainstream thinkers is now widely accepted as ok by everyone. Even media consumption itself has changed almost entirely. People spends lots of time on Facebook and browsing the internet. Television will still be around for a long while, but the paradigm has shifted away from one way media.

.To show how much culture has changed, let us compare two different decades. The fifties and today. Why pick the fifties? It was the decade before a lot of the stuff that happens today got is start.

In the fifties, the family paradigm was set. The wife stayed home, the kids went to school daddy worked and everyone had a suburban house. Of course this probably wasn't an accurate representation of that decade, but one can guess with TV shows at that time. Shows like leave to beaver, bonanza, little house on The prairie were on at roughly this period. What was the big threat to all this wholesomeness? Communism. That's right, Joseph Stalin, Vladimir Lenin violent revolution, kill people who didn't agree with you communism.

"Better dead than red" was a motto back at that time. And so our portrait of that time is complete. The united states with it's fully induced judeo Christian culture was fighting a cold war against another huge super power who was basically portrayed as evil. No internet, only newspaper's and the burgeoning TV industry.

Fast toward to today. Memes, TV, the internet, texting, Facebook, Twitter and a host of other sites. Society seems almost to have a running commentary on what is happening at the moment. Political campaigns are almost still the same, with ads that are ment to evoke emotions and violent cords in our brains. In todays work, as things become more and more gray in ideals, the religions of yesterday struggle to keep up with ideas such transhimanism, cybernetics, cloning, the internet, space travel and a host of other things. Our culture seeks to polarize its self to see any kind of black and white, but there is no such luck.

Has our society lost its way? Have we gone astray? What does the future hold, tell me in the comments.

A theoretical history of corperations

First, let my preface this by saying, this is neither and anti-corp or pro-crop post. This is simple a speculation of how corporations developed from my knowledge and prospective from history. Okay, given that, here we go.

Baring either evolutionary history of any other history of the early world, there are a few things we know for certain.
One, most business was conducted by either the government or individuals.
Two, Mass production was not possible, as most things, from swords to pots were hand crafted.
With these two things set, I will begin the extrapolation of the histories!

In the "olden days", in the days of no set currencies, no central banks, and no tariffs, business was simple. If you wanted to make something, you did. Of course there was the pressure to go into the "family" business, but society did not have the restrictions that it did today. Because society pretty much met is own needs through subsistence farming and city craftsman. There was no large industries to speak of, save war, which always was around. So, there was not real need; neither was there ideas of large groups dedicated to profit. Nationalism (primitive kind) and ideals of citizenship was not really developed.

The middle ages can be almost ignored, but it is the renaissance that we want our attention on things called guilds. Guilds were things that regulated prices, help apprentices, and regulated trade to their advantage in their towns. They were, in some respects, there own corperations.

But they regulated trade, and did not directly do business, so they were not full fledged corporations yet.

What could be be described as early corporations are the trading companies of the 1700's. The Hudson bay company, the Virginia company, the Massachusetts bay company. All of these could qualify as corporations. They all want to make profits, in the form of gold or other valuables, their mission statement was to colonize the Americas for their countries, respectively.

Close, but not close enough. What those companies lacked was total private ownership. Companies that were not backed and funded by the government. These came around the time, you guessed it, the industrial revolution.

Why makes those companies the same as todays? They have total private ownership. They have the means of mass production, and matching logistics. And they have formal legal recognition as entities. This makes them corporations.

Wether you think corporations are people are not is another posts for another time. But I hope this has been informative.

Music today

Have you noticed that old people complain about music, or how people call one group of things music, and not another? For instance, the "battle" between rock and rap. Why is it that people are so specific about the music they like, what music is and what it isn't? Well, that is something we are going to explore in this post.

First off all, one must understand the emotional connection people have with music. Songs that were playing during your first date, your first kiss, an emotional moment in your life? To understand this, we must first understand the connection people make between truth and expirience.

When you learn something, or expirience something, it is ground into your neurons. The pathways that helped with that behavior become stronger. When you do something alot, it is literally reinforced in your brain by neural connections. That is why it is hard to do something you haven't done in a while. The connections for it literally are not there.

So when something happens to you, something big, it is ground into your brain with the firing of all those synapses. You hear the music, your brain instantly calls up that expirience to your head. You equate that expirience with that emotion/feeling.

Also, when you get older, your body is starting to decay or wind down. Your ears are more sensative to certain frequencies that they were not tuned to when you were a kid. So that is why older people complain about loadness. I garentee if you frequency block those frequencies, they would be fine with it.

So because the older songs evoke memories and they do not violate certain frequencies, that is why older people like older music. I think that when my generation becomes grandparents, we will like our dubstep and south korean rap. It is just part of natural development.

So the next time one says its too loud, or that music today isn't like the music back then, blow their mind and tell them how the brain works. Show them that is not really a difference in music, it is just brain chemistry.

Well, I'm off to listen to that devil music

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The church and its bad business model

Hello, everyone! This is Jonathan, and going to do what is called and opinion post. Basically, I rant about something, and you guys discuss it. It is just all my opinion, and if some one has any fact that would correct me, please feel free to share in the comments section.
Ok, so what this all about is the church, specifically the business model is runs off of. I know what you are thinking, "but the church doesn't need one, it doesn't have one for Pete's sake!". That, my friends, is where you would be wrong. The church does in fact run off of a business model. An old one. You see, sometime around the late fifties, the church stopped keeping up with the culture. It simply just stopped.
Now, I give the church some credit, it has tried to update, and some have been rather successful. But as a majoritive whole, it has stay roughly around that time period. The Catholic church is worse not updating since Martin Luther. So, were does that leave the church?
In a not so good position it turns out. Across the board, church's are losing people left and right, though some have bucked the tread. Churches and  denominations that are considered th more radical and culturally literate have taken advantage of this is seize the growing market.
The business model is simple. At least on the surface. Often, parishioners want to do what the church did to grow itself in the past. This would work in some fields, but not all of them. Many churches are doing that and it expecting results that never come.
What should the church do to repair this? Well of course it must never comprise the bible or the great commission. Second, the must be able to understand and capitalize on each ones popularity. Third, the church must understand that change is in world, and that nothing can change that.
Opinions?

Intro!

Hey guys! This is my first official blog post, so it will be rather short and about nothing...other than an intro to the blog for newbies, which everyone is at some point.
First of all, all opinions go on this site. If I publish something that you think is complete and utterly stupid, tell me! We have far too much censorship in this day and age.
Second, let's try to get along. Be respectful and considerate of others. I'm not saying being a prude, but before you cuss a blue streak, think about what you are going to say?
Third and last, anything is fair game on this site. ANYTHING. If I go from talking about health to cars to home design, don't be surprised.
I will try to post every Monday or so, more if possible.
Well this concludes my first post, will be updating this one regularly, so do follow, its going to be interesting!