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Biju
P R
Author,
Teacher, Blogger
Assistant
Professor of Political Science
Government
Brennen College
Thalassery
Kerala,
India
My Books
1. Political Internet: State and Politics in the Age of Social Media,
(Routledge 2017), Amazon https://www.amazon.in/
2. Intimate Speakers: Why Introverted and Socially Ostracized Citizens Use Social Media, (Fingerprint! 2017)
Amazon: http://www.amazon.in/dp/
1. Political Internet: State and Politics in the Age of Social Media,
(Routledge 2017), Amazon https://www.amazon.in/
2. Intimate Speakers: Why Introverted and Socially Ostracized Citizens Use Social Media, (Fingerprint! 2017)
Amazon: http://www.amazon.in/dp/
We
all have ideas. It shapes life. It shapes the world. Some ideas are good just
like presenting a bouquet of flowers to your beloved on Valentine’s Day. They
are good but rather ordinary ideas. Some are bad ideas just like buying a knife
for your beloved on their birthday.
Some
ideas are great ideas. They stand above others. Just like Newton’s gravity,
Principia Mathematica, laws of motion, or Einstein’s theory of relativity, mass
energy equivalence said to be E=mc2
, Charles Babbage’s
computer, Tim Berners-Lee’s World Wide Web, Larry Page’s Google, Zuckerberg’s
Facebook, Jack Dorsey’s Twitter etc.
Great revolutions are
born out of ideas. French Revolution had ideas of equality, liberty and
fraternity. American Revolution has ideas of liberty, equality and pursuit of
happiness. No taxation without representation was motto of
American Revolution. in 1917 Bolshevik revolution had mottos of 'Peace,
Bread, Land' and 'All Power to the Soviets'. The 1979 Revolution
in Iran had motto of Independence & Liberty. Swaraj was motto of
Indian Independence movement, Do or Die had been motto of Quit India.
The
counter cultures of 1960s spread anti-establishment ideas. It
developed first in the United States and the United Kingdom, and then
spread throughout much of the Western world between the early 1960s and the
mid-1970s. It was found popular in cities of London, New York City, and San Francisco being hotbeds
of early countercultural activity. It produced ideas of Beatles, hippie, Bell-bottoms,
A
hippie (or hippy) is a member of a liberal counterculture, originally a youth movement that started in
the United States and United Kingdom during the mid-1960s and spread to other
countries around the world. Hippies sought to free themselves from societal
restrictions, choose their own way, and find new meaning in life.
Bohemianism is the practice
of an unconventional lifestyle, often in the company of like-minded people,
with few permanent ties, involving musical, artistic, or literary pursuits. In
this context, Bohemians may be wanderers, adventurers, or vagabonds.
The
Beatles
were an English rock band, formed in
Liverpool in 1960. With
members John
Lennon,
Paul
McCartney,
George
Harrison
and Ringo
Starr,
they became widely regarded as the foremost and most influential act of the rock
era.
Bob Marley is perhaps even
better known for his support of Rastafarianism and for being the king of
cannabis.
Jamaican reggae singer, songwriter, musician, and
guitarist who achieved international fame and acclaim
Rastafarianism
is an afro-centric religious and social movement based in the Caribbean island
of Jamaica. Stemming from the roots of Rastafari in rising against the
post-colonial oppression of poor blacks, Rastas typically come from
disadvantaged backgrounds.
Famous
Bob Marley poem- “You say you love rain, but you use an umbrella to walk under
it. You say you love sun, but you seek shelter when it is shining. You say you
love wind, but when it comes, you close your windows. So that's why I'm scared
when you say you love me.”
Marley considered cannabis
a healing herb, a "sacrament", and an "aid to medication";
he supported the legalization of the drug
He had one main chat-up line: “Yuh wan have ma baby
Bell-bottoms
(or flares) are a style of trousers
that become wider from the knees
downward, forming a bell-like shape of the trouser leg. Also known today as
"bootcut" or "bootfit". In the mid-1960s, bell-bottoms
became fashionable for both men and women in Europe and North America. Often
made of denim.
Globalisation
and information imperialism
Globalisation infact created only one idea. The idea
of market capitalism. Ideas are created by market. Market dictates our ideas.
It freezes our thoughts for commodities.
In the past,
Socrates was so intent on protecting
citizens from the seductive opinions of artists and writers, that he outlawed
them from his imaginary republic
Plato warned of the lose of memory when
writing was invented
medieval script writers warned of the
evils of printing press
People warned of the lose of
relationship when Alexander Graham Bell invented telephone
but we lost ideas and power of thoughts in
the age of globalsiation because we are trapped by the seductive utopias of the
globalised world
From the French and Russian revolutions
to the counter-cultural upheavals of the ‘60s and the digital revolution of the
‘90s, we have been seduced, time after time and text after text, by the vision
of a political or economic utopia.
Now the seductive utopias of our age are produced
not by old centres of ideas.
Rather than Paris, Moscow, or Berkeley,
the grand utopian movement of our contemporary age is headquartered in Silicon
Valley, whose great seduction is actually a fusion of two historical movements:
the counter-cultural utopianism of the ‘60s and the techno-economic utopianism
of the ‘90s. Here in Silicon
Valley, this seduction has announced
itself to the world as the “Web 2.0” movement. Just as Marx seduced a
generation of European idealists with his fantasy of selfrealization in a communist
utopia, so the Web 2.0 cult of creative self-realization has seduced everyone
in Silicon Valley. The movement bridges counter-cultural radicals of the ‘60s
such as Steve Jobs with the contemporary geek culture of
Google’s Larry Page. Between the
book-ends of Jobs and Page lies the rest of Silicon Valley including radical
communitarians like Craig Newmark (of Craigslist.com), intellectual property
communists such as Stanford Law Professor Larry Lessig, economic cornucopians (futurist) like Wired magazine editor
Chris “Long Tail” Anderson, journalism professor Jeff Jarvis, and new media
moguls Tim O’Reilly and John Battelle.
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