The Future of Communication
Mike Wesch, a 2009 National Geographic Emerging Explorer, talks about the future of communication and education, and describes the inspiration behind—and breakthrough success of—his wildly popular video Web 2.0 The Machine is Us/ing Us.
May 28, 2010 | Filed Under XML Tutorials
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It’s difficult to see the evolution when you’re in the middle of if.
A lot of missionary work is done in cultures that have already done away with their heritage, and are weak and desperate. Christianity is by no means “correct” or “the right way,” but Christian missionaries do good deeds and really, no person can unwillingly convert to a different religion so if someone does, that’s their choice.
Well I am not to stigmatize a whole set of people, I am sure they have a few good folks that are missionaries, and actually help instead of try and brain wash folks. But when it comes to choices, I am not too sure if that is always accurate, a lot of times people converted because they saw some sort of gain in society, whether it was financial, or just being able to exist. Like lots of Muslims converted to Christianity after their loss of Andalusia, and Jews converting to Christianity etc…
Just goes to show that religion, like culture, changes and morphs as time progresses. It’s the natural order. Even if entire societies convert to a different religious belief for political or practical reasons, how is that any worse than them converting to one in some other way? They are obviously better off as a group so who cares what fantasy they choose to view their world through?
Better society + Religion A > Worse society + Religion B.
Either way, it doesnt matter what “fantasy” or what other belief people have, all I am saying is that it should be a private matter, and hence I personally dont care for my neighbors religion, long as it does not impose on me, nor lecture me, or try to “purify” me, that is where it crosses the line in my view. Who is one side of people to tell the other side what is right or wrong? Its absolutely arrogant and self centered, in my opinion. Funny thing is, we like it done to others, but not to us.
Well, the funny thing is, we haven’t had a chance to see if we’d like it done to us, since we’re pretty much the most prosperous nation in the world. I am guessing that if we were ravaged by civil war, the government became our enemy, food was scarce, and our entire nation pretty much disintegrated, we’d be very quick to accept another, more stable culture’s religious beliefs if they came to our aid.
Well you seem quite confident on that note, on which I would have to disagree on. Americans did have a similar situation, which was from 1861-1865, the American civil war in which Britain did try to sway one side against the other and act as liberator, but obviously folks decided to rather stick together against the invaders. Similarly as happened when nutcase orthodox Jews at mount Masada, while Judea was in a civil war, decided to die instead of surrender to the liberator Rome.
Well, you know your history better than I do. I guess I agree that forcing religion down another culture’s throat is usually wrong, but I think that a lot of the time, especially with missionaries nowadays, they do more good than harm. I dunno. The moral of the story is that the world is a fucked up place.
Well, I agree with you on that one, that the state of the world since humans been around is a fucked up place. Some folks are respectful of others and dont act arrogant and hostile to those that are different, but mainly we are power hungry, selfish, self centered and self righteous theatrical greedy assholes! By the way, your comedy vids are cool! ;)
obviously you have no idea what ur talking about… good deeds with some kind of intention of returning favor, aren’t pure. it’s offering someone a drug..”first bag is free”…… however, there are consequences.
garbage in, garbage out….
this i agree. it’s foot on the face to those who have built their countries. Their hearts aren’t about helping the helpless. These people try to buy them people trust w/ materials things to make them look good. This isn’t good deeds. It’s purely has intentions of favorism. It’s all about trying to recruit as many people into their christianity campaign as much as possible. It’s like walk into a poor man home and offer him a bowl of rice yet sell him & his family with ur belief.
we wouldn’t be here that long…. as long as these converting ppl doing their job right.
everything has its past… you,me, ur family, technology, music,fashion, automobiles, science and math. History makes us who we are and we’re going. The best thinkers, best musicians, best scientists all learn from the past.
The increase of human knowledge has nothing to do with technology but his/her willingly to learn or how much he/she want to acheive it.
Sadly that is human nature, most humans do things to advance and gain some sort of benefit or profit. If all people that claim to be religious would actually live by what they claim that they do, everybody would respect the other irregardless of their specific faith. Fact is that humans are self righteous and arrogant, and 9 times out of 10 feel as if they are superior, hence saving the inferior with their wisdom. By the way I love muay thai, discipline of it is great.
indeed.
Thank you for sharing your video presentation, it is great to learn about other countries, their cultures, the country itself…..
I can’t believe a video titled “The Future of Communication” isn’t captioned. Try turning the sound off and lipread Mike Wesch. May I at least have a transcript or a signed version?
choices decide where we’re going. not history.
without the past there is no future. One must exist, in order for the other to disappear. It’s law of casuality.
damn ads, comeon yyoutube get rid of this shit
Yes because bandwidth and storage is paid by who?
you think sirius xm will create a non ad version of youtube???
so your saying university is becoming obcelete??