20 June 2009 3 Comments

As a result of my enthusiasm for this site and its evolution into a form of culture that, as of yet, has no real name, I wanted to speak explicitly about some of my interpretations of what is happening.

First of all, I was inspired by Globatron’s founder to see within the internet, within the realm of digitality a place for the creation of something that rivals the integrity and clarity of every great work of art. Like all great teachings, it started out as an accepted premise that I used to share some ideas, and slowly grew into a profound devotion to a revolutionary concept.

Although this will seem a bit of a tangent, I want to talk a bit about some personal growth and how it has given me a very particular interpretation of the value of this site. I have always believed that the American educational system prizes competition above all other virtues and I was a good student, therefore I was a good competitor with ideas. It took me a long time to understand how this had adversely affected my friendships. People I cared for and respected intellectually were always objects of my competitive drives. The most insidious aspect of this dysfunction is the fact that in the majority of circumstances I was unconscious of this. It was only when I began accusing, in private, my friends of being competitive with me that I began the journey of understanding that such competition takes two or more, and cannot be felt without my active participation. I am happy to say that through conscious effort I have learned to be a more devoted friend whom honors the strengths in others as gifts to me, not threats, and that I can honor my own gifts without having to have them constantly applauded. I have found that consistent affirmation of the strengths of others is possibly the most powerful form of love I have ever had the privilege of acting upon. When I realized that my friends were allies and not enemies, that they were a part of the network that protects me and guides me through life, that they were my community and their consciousness is interlinked with mine, that on some level they were a part of me, I saw that to compete with them was as absurd as thumb wrestling with myself.

What does this have to do with Globatron? Well, due to this growing openness to the wisdom of my fellows, I was able to receive the intense wisdom of seeing this new form of culture as a possible nexus for the manifestation of that holy grail we call ‘art.’ When I did that and began acting on it, I added my divinity to that mix and I discovered that within this nexus there was a place for some of my interests, some of my mystical insights that have to do with the union of all human beings.

And this is the thesis that is being presented: Cultural glory, the kind found when a philosopher has a breakthrough, or an artist, or a musician, might possibly be found not in individualism, but as a result of a truly equalized shared form of consciousness. Although Globatron has different voices, history will not make any one voice a hero, but rather the voices are submissive to a whole, and that whole is itself a new higher form of consciousness that acts with force and creative power in the world, and therefore has an identity. That identity, because it acts as a symbol, frees its voices to humbly submit their best to the process without the destructive force of ego. Therefore the creative experience is dynamic, relief from that solitary studio experience, the creative movement of thought occurs across a small multitude of brains connected through a digital system that includes text, image and sound and is therefore quite immersive. Just as one enjoys the beauty of a song or a beautiful body as the integration of parts, so too the enjoyment of Globatron is in the synthesis that occurs when a small number of intelligent human beings combine their wisdom into a greater whole. A great work of art is that which defies the calculus of reason, by seeming to be more than the sum of its parts, and in doing so reveals to us the sublime which inspires us again toward faith in a more mystical reality than the one our senses indicate. Globatron has had such moments, and that is exciting for me.

Globatron for life!!!