I should delete my Social Media -- and if so, What is it?
A :
There are Two -
One of them is for
Your Own Good
And The Other is for
Society's Good.
Jaron Lanier, the Silicone Valley ‘computer philosopher', thinks social media is ruining your life.
In this interview Jaron Lanier talks about Facebook, YouTube, Google and how the tech and social media giants are using algorithms to record data about their users - and how internet algorithms shape how we see The World and what we’re shown online.
Superman talks to Jor-El
Superman (3 Hour TV Version)
Jor-El : [in the Fortress of Solitude]
You... enjoyed it.
Superman :
I don't know what to say, Father.
I'm afraid I just got carried away.
Jor-El :
I anticipated this, my son. I...
Superman : [surprised]
You couldn't have!
You couldn't have imagined...
Jor-El :
...How good it felt.
[Clark nods]
Jor-El :
You are revealed to The World. Very well, so be it.
But you must still keep your secret identity.
Superman :
But why?
Jor-El :
The Reasons are Two :
First, you cannot serve humanity twenty-eight hours a day.
Superman :
Er, twenty-four.
Jor-El :
Or, twenty-four, as it is in Earth time.
Your help would be called for endlessly,
even for those problems which human beings could solve themselves.
It is their habit to abuse their resources in such a way.
Superman :
And, secondly?
Jor-El :
Secondly,
Your Enemies will discover their only way to Hurt You :
By Hurting The People You Care For.
Superman :
Thank you, Father.
Jor-El :
Lastly...
Do not punish yourself for your feelings of Vanity.
Simply learn to control them.
It is an affliction common to all, even on Krypton.
Our Destruction could have been avoided
had it not been for the Vanity of some who considered us indestructible.
Were it not for Vanity, why... at this very moment...
This Year, we shall examine The Various Concepts of Immortatility, and their basis in Actual Fact...
In Medieval times, people did not divide Reality into Inner and Outer or even acknowledge a difference between the two.
For them, inside and outside were the same.
To accomplish all that we have today, we’ve had to split the world in two.
We couldn’t be this competitive with a Medieval Mind.
But the price we pay for our accomplishments is Loneliness and anInability to Love.
When We’re In Love, We ARE Our Beloved.
I spent many years trying to help people differentiate between inner and outer:
You are you, and I am I. Your husband is your husband.
We have not yet completed the transition to The Modern Mind.
Many psychological problems are a failure to differentiate between out there and in here.
According to the teachings of India, The External World is 'maya', illusion.
It is considered illusory because it is actually WITHIN,not out there.
We see only the “ten thousand things” that we project.
LIKE SLENDERMAN
Or Count Dracula
Or, IT.
In ancient China, Lao Tzu dreamed of a butterfly, and for the rest of his life he didn’t know whether he had dreamed the butterfly or the butterfly had dreamed him.
In the West, gold is the symbol of the Self, while in the East, the symbol of our inner divinity is The Diamond.
In their interior meanings, they are the same, but the images are different. Diamonds are the hardest matter on earth—unearthly, celestial, and impersonal.
Gold is much softer, a matter of relationship,the Self as related. I think we’re lucky to have gold to cope with.
My Son.
You Do Not Remember Me.
I am Jor-El.
I am Your Father.
By now, you will have reached your 18th year, as it is measured on Earth.
By that reckoning, I will have been dead for many thousands of your years.
The Knowledge, that I have, matters Physical and Historic, I have given you fully on your voyage, to your New Home.
These are important matters, to be sure, but — still matters of mere Fact.
There are QUESTIONS to Be Asked.
And it is TIME, for You to Do So. Here in this, this Fortress, of Solitude —
We shall try to find The Answers together.
So, My Son. Speak.
Who am I?
Your Name is Kal-El.
You are The Only Survivor of The Planet Krypton.
Even though you have been raised, as a Human Being, you are Not One of Them.
You have Great Powers, only some of which you have, as yet discovered.
Come with me now My Son, as we break through the bars of your Earthly confinement, travelling through time and space...
In the 6 known dimensions...
Your Powers, will far exceed those of mortal man...
It is forbidden for you to interfere with Human History. Rather let Your Leadership, stir Others to...
In this next year, we shall examine, The Human Heart. It is more fragile than your own...
For the past 2 years...
As we pass through The Flaming Turmoil which is the edge of your own galaxy, we will enter the realm of the red Krypton sun. Source of your Strength and Nourishment and, Cause of our eventual destruction.
The Planet Krypton, My Son, Your Home, As it Was...
This Year, we shall examine The Various Concepts of Immortatility, and their basis in Actual Fact...
The total accumulation of all knowledge spanning the 28 known galaxies, is embedded in The Crystals which I have sent along with you.
Study them well My Son, and learn from them...
Over The Past 12 years, we have reasoned out Logical Judgments...
By the time we return to the confines of your galaxy, 12 of your years will have passed...
For this reason among others, I have chosen Earth, for you...
It is now time for you to rejoin your New World, and to Serve its Collective Humanity.
Live as One of Them Kal-El, to discover where your Strength and your Power are Needed.
But always Hold in Your Heart the Pride, of your Special Heritage.
They can be a Great People Kal-El, They Wish To Be — They only lack The Light to Show Them The Way.
For This Reason, above all, their Capacity for GOOD, I have sent them YOU — My Only Son.
(Now an adult, Superman emerges from The Fortress. The crowd Goes Wild.)
Jor-El : You... Enjoyed it.
Superman : I don't know what to say, Father. I'm afraid I just got carried away.
Jor-El : I anticipated this, my son. I... S
uperman : [surprised] You couldn't have! You couldn't have imagined...
Jor-El : ...How good it felt. [Clark nods] Jor-El : You are revealed to the world. Very well, so be it. But you must still keep your secret identity. Superman : But why? Jor-El : The reasons are two. First, you cannot serve humanity twenty-eight hours a day. Superman : Twenty-four. Jor-El : Or twenty-four, as it is in Earth time. Your help would be called for endlessly, even for those problems which human beings could solve themselves. It is their habit to abuse their resources in such a way. Superman : And, secondly? Jor-El : Secondly, your enemies will discover their only way to hurt you: by hurting the people you care for.
Superman : Thank you, Father.
Jor-El : Lastly... Do not punish yourself for your feelings of vanity. Simply learn to control them. It is an affliction common to all, even on Krypton.
Our destruction could have been avoided had it not been for the Vanity of some who considered us indestructible. Were it not for vanity, why... at this very moment...
Didn't your dad ever teach you to look before you leap?
Crystals. They're amazing, aren't they?
They inherit The Traits of The Minerals around them...
kind of like — A Son
inheriting The Traits
of His FATHER !
Look buddy, we sent you there
to die, but ya' had to come back . . .
Oh yeah. All those photos?
Those stories about
Krypton still existing?
It was me.
And him.
Lex looks toward Stanford.
Thankfully,
The Press doesn't check Factslike they used to.
Hey, you took away five years of my life.
I just returned the favor.
SUPERMAN :
I'm still Superman!
SUPERMAN REVENGE SQUAD :
Get up! Come on!
Now, fly.
•STABS HIM WITH A KRYPTONITE SHIV AND SNAPS OFF THE BLADE•
LUTHOR:
So long, Superman.
“We require RULES, STANDARDS, VALUES
— alone AND together.
We’re pack animals,
Beasts of burden.
We must Bear a Load,
to justify our miserable existence.
We require Routine and Tradition.
That’s Order.
Order can become excessive,
and that’s Not Good,
But Chaos can swamp us, so we drown —
and that is alsoNot Good.
We need to stay on
The Straight and Narrow path.
[I seek,] Therefore [to]
Provide A Guide to Being There.
“There” is The Dividing Line
between Order and Chaos.
That’s where we are simultaneously Stable ENOUGH,
Exploring ENOUGH,
Transforming ENOUGH,
Repairing ENOUGH,
and
Cooperating ENOUGH.
It’s there we find The Meaning that justifies Life and its inevitable Suffering.
Perhaps, if we lived •properly•, we would be able to tolerate the weight of our own self-consciousness.
Perhaps, if we lived •properly•, we could withstand the knowledge of our own fragility and mortality, without the sense of aggrieved victimhood that produces, first,
Resentment, then Envy,
and then
The Desire for
Vengeance and Destruction.
Perhaps, if we lived •properly•, we wouldn’t have to turn to totalitarian certainty to shield ourselves from the knowledge of our own Insufficiency and Ignorance.
Perhaps we could come to avoid those pathways to Hell —
and we have seen in the terrible Twentieth Century
just how real Hell can be.
Humanity, in toto,
and those who compose it
as identifiable people
deserve some sympathy
for the appalling burden
under which
The Human Individual
genuinely staggers;
Some sympathy for subjugation to
Mortal Vulnerability,
Tyranny of The State, and
The Depredations of Nature.
It is an Existential Situation that
no mere animal encounters or endures,
and one of severity such
that it would take a God to fully bear it.
It is this sympathy
that should be the proper medicament
for self-conscious self-contempt,
which has its justification,
but is only halfThe Full and Proper story.
Hatred for Self and Mankind
must be balanced with
Gratefulness for Traditionand The State and
Astonishment at what Normal,
Everyday People accomplish —
to say nothing of
The Staggering Achievements
of the Truly Remarkable.
We Deserve some respect.
You Deserve some respect.
You are important to Other People,
as much as to yourself.
You have some vital role to play in The Unfolding Destiny of The World.
You are, therefore, morally obliged
to take care of yourself.
You should take care of,
help and be good to yourself
the same way you would take care of, help and be good to someone you loved and valued.
You may therefore
have to conduct yourself habitually
in a manner that allows you
some respect for your own Being —
and fair enough.
But every person is deeply flawed. Everyone falls short of the glory of God.
If that stark fact meant, however, that we had no responsibility to care, for ourselves as much as others, everyone would be brutally punished all the time.
That would not be good.
That would make the shortcomings of the world, which can make everyone who thinks honestly question the very propriety of the world, worse in every way.
That simply cannot be the proper path forward.
To treat yourself as if you were someone you are responsible for helping is, instead, to consider what would be truly good for you.
THIS IS •NOT•
“What You WANT.”
It is also NOR “What Would Make You HAPPY.”
Every time you give a child something sweet, you make that child happy.
That does NOT mean that you should do nothing for children except feed them candy.
“Happy” is by no means synonymous with “Good.”
You must get children to brush their teeth.
They must put on their snowsuits when they go outside in the cold, even though they might object strenuously.
You must help a child become a virtuous, responsible, awake being, capable of full reciprocity— Able to take care of himself and others, and to thrive while doing so.
Why would you think it acceptable to do anything less for yourself?
You need to consider The Future and think,
“What might my life look like if I were caring for myself •properly•?"
"What career would challenge me and render me productive and helpful, so that I could shoulder my share of the load, and enjoy the consequences?"
"What should I be doing, when I have some freedom, to improve my health, expand my knowledge, and strengthen my body?”
You need to know where you are, so you can start to chart your course.
You need to know who you are, so that you understand your armament and bolster yourself in respect to your limitations.
You need to know where you are going, so that you can limit the extent of chaos in your life, restructure order, and bring the divine force of Hope to bear on The World.
You must determine where you are going, so that you can bargain for yourself, so that you don’t end up resentful, vengeful and cruel.
You have to articulate your own principles, so that you can defend yourself against others’ taking inappropriate advantage of you, and so that you are secure and safe while you work and play.
You must discipline yourself carefully.
You must keep the promises you make to yourself, and reward yourself, so that you can trust and motivate yourself.
You need to determine how to act toward yourself so that you are most likely to become and to stay a good person. It would be good to make The World a better place.
Heaven, after all, will not arrive of its own accord.
We will have to work to bring it about, and strengthen ourselves, so that we can withstand the deadly angels and flaming sword of judgment that God used to bar its entrance.
Don’t underestimate the power of vision and direction.
These are irresistible forces, able to transform what might appear to be unconquerable obstacles into traversable pathways and expanding opportunities.
Strengthen the individual.
Start with yourself.
Take care with yourself.
Define who you are.
Refine your personality.
Choose your destination and articulate your Being.
As the great nineteenth-century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche so brilliantly noted,
“He whose life has a why can bear almost any how.”
You could help direct The World, on its careening trajectory, a bit more toward Heaven and a bit more away from Hell.
Once having understood Hell, researched it, so to speak—particularly your own individual Hell—you could decide against going there or creating that.
You could aim elsewhere.
You could, in fact, devote your life to this.
That would give you a Meaning, with a capital M.
That would justify your miserable existence.
That would atone for your sinful nature, and replace your shame and self-consciousness with the natural pride and forthright confidence of someone who has learned once again to walk with God in the Garden.
You could begin by treating yourself as if you were someone you were responsible for helping.
One needs to make creepy friends in order to Survive.
Even a man with my vast talents
is worth less inside than a carton of cigarettes
and a sharp piece of metal in your pocket.
Do you know The Story of Prometheus?
No, of course you don't.
Prometheus was a God
who stole The Power of Fire from The Other Gods
and gave control of it to Mortals.
In essence, he gave us Technology.
He gave us Power.
Kitty Kowalski:
So we're stealing Fire?
In The Arctic.
Lex Luthor:
Actually, sort of.
You see, whoever controls Technology
controls The World.
The Roman Empire ruled The World
because they built roads.
The British Empire ruled The World
because they built ships.
America, The Atom Bomb,
and so on and so forth.
I just want what Prometheus wanted.
Kitty Kowalski:
Sounds great, Lex, but you're not a God.
Lex Luthor:
Gods are selfish beings who fly around in little red capes,
and don't share Their Power with Mankind.
Minion :
Hey, boss.
We found something.
Lex Luthor:
No, I don't wanna be a god.
I just wanna bring fire to The People.
And I want my cut.
Kitty Kowalski:
Was this his house?
Lex Luthor:
You might think so. Most would.
This is more of a monument to a long dead and extremely powerful civilization.
This is where he learned who he was.
This is where he came for guidance.
Possibilities.
Endless Possibilities.
Kitty Kowalski:
You act like you've been here before.
Jor-El:
My Son. You do not remember me.
I am Jor-El. I am Your Father.
By now I will have been dead for many thousands of your years.
Lex Luthor:
He thinks I'm his son?
Jor-El:
Embedded in the crystals before you is the total accumulation of all literature and scientific fact of dozens of other worlds spanning the twenty-eight known galaxies.
Kitty Kowalski:
Can he see us?
Lex Luthor:
...No, he's dead.
Jor-El:
There are many questions to be asked.
Here, in this.... Fortress of Solitude, we will try to find the answers together.
So, my son...Kal-El...speak.
Lex Luthor:
Tell me everything.
Starting with crystals.
Thor :
What good were you in your cell?
Loki :
Who put me there?
WHO PUT ME THERE?
Thor :
YOU KNOW DAMN WELL WHO!
YOU KNOW DAMN WELL!
[pins Loki]
Thor :
[lets go of Loki]
She wouldn't want us to fight.
Loki :
Well, she wouldn't exactly be •shocked•.
Thor :
[smiles]
I •wish• I could trust you.
Loki :
[whispers]
Trust my rage.
Lex Luthor:
Kryptonite.
You're asking yourself, "How?"
Didn't your dad ever teach you to look before you leap?
Crystals. They're amazing, aren't they?
They inherit the traits of the minerals around them... kind of like a son inheriting the traits of his father!
You took away five years of my life,
I'm just returning the favor!
Superman :
I'm still Superman!
Lex Luthor:
Get up! Come on!
Now, fly.
So long, Superman.
There’s a Fatherly Aspect, So here’s what God as a Father is like : You can enter into a Covenant with it, so you can make a bargain with it. It responds to Sacrifice.
It Answers Prayers
It Punishes and Rewards.
It Judges and Forgives.
It’s notNature.
It built Eden for Mankind and then banished us for disobedience.
It’s Too Powerful to be Touched.
It granted Free will.
Distance from it is Hell.
Distance from it is Death.
It reveals itself in dogma and in mystical experience, and it’s The Law.
