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Monday 23 July 2018

the anticulturalist: personality degradation



a person exists

technology demands that the person exists inside electric pulses

whether by interface or upload

by interface it is an imitation only

a watered down image of a person controlled in part by the person

and in part by the interface

either way it is low fidelity

by upload the person is inside the technology

but the technology defines the existence

this paradox is personality degradation

because the infinite copies of a person
whilst in every way identical

are not that person

and the copies each copy each perfect imitation
can exist in as many iterations and situations as exist

this is also defined by the technology

and in part the copy

but not by the original source

because the source has degraded through sheer weight of numbers

in this system you may consider the original source to be the anticulturalist

but that is not the case

the technology is not the anticulturalist force either
because technology was created by people

it is this unseen hand that is the anticulturalist
and pure anticulturalist thought may claim this for itself

because the bias of the creator is indelibly watermarked through the digital person

and the infinite copies granulated throughout the internet and its structures

does electricity exist or only its effects

this is the question an anticulturalist may ask and answer for his own need from his own point of view for the time he requires the answer that suits him

of course this is also a paradox because anticulturalist proclamations are invalid unless the anticulturalist claims them for himself and there can only be one true anticulturalist at any one time

each individual is that only single true anticulturalist if they claim it

and each individual copy and granulated degraded dissipated copy becomes an original in its own right

riddles within riddles but all irrelevant to the only one single anticulturalist

there are infinite single and only sole anticulturalists who are the only single and sole anticulturalist

this is the paradox and the beauty of the system and where it is both perfect and flawed by design