finally…sustainability…
so i’m in vietnam again. im not sure if much has changed. my room is clean again. i’m still listening to music. i’m still talking about myself. i’m still yearning for buddhism. and pining for anti-dogma. and looking at little parts of myself that need tweaking. maybe i’m working out less. eating about the same (strange vietnamese foods, indeed = noodles, rice, soup, etc.). well…one thing could be said to be different. i am using a ubuntu-linux computer. how ’bout that. getting immersed in the religion of code. it really is a religion. you know, i haven’t felt like i was part of an underground electronic anything until i finally stubled upon the open-source programming internet engineer community. you know, i moved completely over to windows like 10 years ago…i liked it because it was a little more, for me, customizable than macs. And just 7 months ago I moved over to ubuntu-linux. This, at first, became a project of understanding, as best as i amateurly could, the innards of the this new fascinating OS (with a history to boot: the linux movement has been going on since the beginning of internet, etc., and its kind of like a geeky underground or a sage’s cave kingdom). And now, as I’ve understood most of the necessary basics to run this computer like a semi-geek, I’m finally puncturing the skin of the linux community. wow. talk about feeling connected. the very thing that i’m using is privy to by people out there who i can talk realtime on chat to fix my problems. no more calling up people for help on the phone. but that’s only a cool side result, what’s actually really cool is what this is telling me about sustainability.
sustainability is roughly defined as something lasting for an indeinite period of time (my definition)…and how does one do that? some would say it is caused by making a closed loop system that is capable of perpetually existing on its own resources. but what things like wikipedia is telling us is that something can sustain itself by a group who have a common anonymous value to contribute knowledge. this is also true for the linux community where a bug on various computers shows up and people report it and the people who feel so morally inclined contribute by fixing the problem and then publishing the solutions for everyone to see. now let’s see, can we apply this different way of organizing a community towards the earlier mentioned definition of sustainability?
the only reason why anyone would think that the appendages and potentials of internet is adolescent is because people who are educated are slower on the uptake. When educators finally take the initiative to use the internet as a massive educational tool that is when the tide of the internet, and maybe even the world, will change. but as of now, we are on the steady proliferation of this new religion.
Powered by ScribeFire.
