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Children of Chaos
Sunday, December 14, 2008 at 10:50AM
Idealistic but Classy
Children of Chaos: Surviving the End of the World as We Know It
April 29, 1997
by Stuart Price
Douglas Rushkoff is a class writer, and this is a class book. Just getting someone to think through some ideas and come to well-founded conclusions is a start; but this writer goes further, with an attractive, often humorous style and compelling insights into why those who have grown up with a background of computer technology - or "screenagers" - are so baffling.
While teenage rebellion has been a staple of the 20th century, these screenagers are the most powerful yet. Their media is sophisticated in a way that the Sex Pistols' Anarchy In The UK, for instance, was not, and he has some good insights into why modern media - comics, television, computer games, the Internet and rave culture - with their participatory nature and surface confusion are attractive to screenagers.
Rushkoff works hard at getting all this to fit into his idealistic world view - that evolution is taking us to a new stage of development and we need to understand it and adapt. He goes further, comparing what is happening on the surface - the turbulence - to a fractal, which has a simple mathematical structure hidden in its design.
The Children of Chaos are the key to this book. Rushkoff now has his own, so he sees an evolutionary "third stage" in everything. We're going from linear to non-linear, from metaphor into recapitulation, from duality to holism, from mechanism to animism and from God to nature - and he's clever at pounding away at examples to show this - but there's something missing in his libertarian view.
He knows all about human nature but believes in its goodness - screenagers are making their own rules, and good on them, according to Rushkoff. But it's just not that simple. Nothing has shown that human nature is essentially "good" - take the Holocaust or any other form of debasing cruelty or genocide, where the question is not "Where is God?" but "Where is Man?"
And just because there may be order and uniformity underlying a fractal, it doesn't mean there will be the same order in a fractal-like chaotic society. It could just be what it looks like: chaos. And the question is not how we adapt to chaos but how we adapt chaos to fit how we want to live. Yes, evolution might be "natural", but that doesn't mean we have to accept it.
Read this book; it's a damned good, perceptive and compelling antithesis to popular notions of "bad technology". I loved it.
Children of Chaos: Surviving the End of the World as We Know It
April 29, 1997
by Stuart Price
Douglas Rushkoff is a class writer, and this is a class book. Just getting someone to think through some ideas and come to well-founded conclusions is a start; but this writer goes further, with an attractive, often humorous style and compelling insights into why those who have grown up with a background of computer technology - or "screenagers" - are so baffling.
While teenage rebellion has been a staple of the 20th century, these screenagers are the most powerful yet. Their media is sophisticated in a way that the Sex Pistols' Anarchy In The UK, for instance, was not, and he has some good insights into why modern media - comics, television, computer games, the Internet and rave culture - with their participatory nature and surface confusion are attractive to screenagers.
Rushkoff works hard at getting all this to fit into his idealistic world view - that evolution is taking us to a new stage of development and we need to understand it and adapt. He goes further, comparing what is happening on the surface - the turbulence - to a fractal, which has a simple mathematical structure hidden in its design.
The Children of Chaos are the key to this book. Rushkoff now has his own, so he sees an evolutionary "third stage" in everything. We're going from linear to non-linear, from metaphor into recapitulation, from duality to holism, from mechanism to animism and from God to nature - and he's clever at pounding away at examples to show this - but there's something missing in his libertarian view.
He knows all about human nature but believes in its goodness - screenagers are making their own rules, and good on them, according to Rushkoff. But it's just not that simple. Nothing has shown that human nature is essentially "good" - take the Holocaust or any other form of debasing cruelty or genocide, where the question is not "Where is God?" but "Where is Man?"
And just because there may be order and uniformity underlying a fractal, it doesn't mean there will be the same order in a fractal-like chaotic society. It could just be what it looks like: chaos. And the question is not how we adapt to chaos but how we adapt chaos to fit how we want to live. Yes, evolution might be "natural", but that doesn't mean we have to accept it.
Read this book; it's a damned good, perceptive and compelling antithesis to popular notions of "bad technology". I loved it.
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