Controversy

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/05/12/business/facebook-privacy.html?ref=personaltech

“You can’t take it with you
Dancing for your pleasure
You are not to blame for
Bittersweet distractors
Dare not speak its name
Dedicated to all human beings
Because we separate
Like ripples on a blank shore
In rainbows
Because we separate
The ripples on a black shore
Reckoner, take me with you
Dedicated to all human beings”

Radiohead

burası birbirine sonsuz sayıda yollardan bağlantısı olma ihtimali bulunan milyarlarca sayfanın arka arkaya ve fakat birbirinden tamamen farklı konumlarda saklandığı ağ evreninde bir sayfa. burayı sen ne zaman buldun? buradan kimseye söz etmedim.

sadece adreslerini bildiğin sayfalarda en gizli yerlerini tatmin etmek için gece gizlice bağlandığın bir network burası. işte sana tehlikeli kelimeler. seninle aynı şekilde tanımadığı kızların nasıl becerildiğini seyretme konusunda merakı olan insanlar bunları seyrettikten sonra sen de seyredebil, coşkuya sen de katıl diye paylaştığı bir yer. daha önce hiç kolay olmadığı kadar kolay, daha önce hiç olmadığı kadar hızlı bir dünya. gerçekliğin yaşanmasının da bir o kadar zor olduğu bir dünya. yüzlerini görmediğin binlerce bağlı sistemin gezindiği bir gerçeklik.

insanların her biri bir gün karar verdiğinde kimsenin yerinden kalkmadan çalışabileceği, gezebileği ve hayatın baştan aşağı değişeceği yer burada başlıyor, adreste.

bağlantı bir adresle başlar. adres seni bulabilmek için kullandığımız bir tanımlayıcıdır. gerçek dünyada nerede oturduğundan çok sana nereden cevap göndereceksek onu bilmemiz için gerekir bize. adresler önemlidir. adresler hiyerarşiktir ve her ne kadar sana ait oldukları herkesçe bilinmese de sonunda arayanları sana getirir.

sistemin kapıları kapalıdır… seni bulan sistemine erişebilmek için bu kapıları zorlar. banka soygunlarını hatırla.. eğer kapı kırılamayacak kadar güçlüyse banka müdürünün ensesine dayadığın silahla açarsın kapıyı. ama açılmayacak kapı yoktur. kapılar sadece vakit alır. yeterince vaktin varsa tüm kapılar kırılır.

ya para aynı anda binlerce bilgisayarda ise. ya biz bi gün bilginin dağıtık saklanmasını sağlarsak ve tüm sistemler kendi başları yerine, komun halinde hareket edebilirlerse ne olur? o zaman ordular ortaya çıkacak. bilgisayarının başında saatlerce tek bir kapıyı zorlayan o adam yerine artık generaller ortaya çıkacak. bu dağıtık sistem ve işte bu fikir, idea, ide, mit gerçeği sayısallaştırır. neden paramı aynı anda 30 kasada saklayamam? 1. gerektiğinde toplamam zor olur, 2. güvenliği 30 ayrı noktaya dağıtmam gerekir. başka cevaplanması gereken soruların yanında bu ilk sorulara cevaplar; gerektiğinde toplaman gerekeyecek, çünkü alışveriş, transaction, toplam bilgisi üstünden yapılacak. mekansızlık. 2. herhangi bir kasa ele geçse bile içindeki toplamın sadece 30 da biri. güvenlik 30 parçanın toplamını güvenli kılmak için gerekenden çok daha düşük olabilir. sistem merkezi mi olmalı yoksa dağıtık mı? hizmet merkezden mi sağlanmalı yoksa koordine alt merkezlerden mi sağlanmalı. yoksa merkezler küçülmeli ve birbirinden bağımsız mı olmalı?

bir metal kablo üzerinden hareket eden elektronlar. elektronları durdurabiliyorsam eğer, ordular da bunlar üzerinden yönetilebilir. insanlar otururlar ve buna alışırlarsa o zaman ordulara gerek kalmayabilir. herkes sadece tuşlarla iletişim kurmaya başlar ve sadece elektronlar taşınırsa bir düşün, daha az enerji gerekir ve daha az bekleriz geceyi. zaman daha anlamsızlaşır. sadece gezmek için evden çıkarım. hatta çıkar mıyım? büyük ihtimalle çıkmam. bu da burada sona erer.

An example above on where we are. “White man” “street wolf” comments on a story at neowin.net(http://www.neowin.net/news/new-york-university-professor-to-implant-camera-in-his-head). Similar common places that you will get to visit daily on the internet who allow for comments, will provide similar examples every day. The world, the western “white” people and the assimilated black people following their lead, have come to a point where stereotyping the “Middle Eastern man” is the new black. It’s a complicated relationship between the white man and the middle eastern man with the middle eastern man owning most of the world’s oil and the white man owning the world. Living in Dubai for the past couple months helps put all that in a new light. Let me take you through a quick world history tour and how we ended up here.

The Silk Road. Trade and moving of resources from where the resources are to the places where resources aren’t and controlling the road and the resources. Following the Ottomans’ invasion of and making Anatolia a home, the link between the East and the West cut off. The cut off lasted for centuries, around 6 centuries to be somewhat exact. When you look at how it used to be in the east, the dark middle ages, it actually wasn’t. The east from the steppes of China to the outer rim , the Balkans, were actually living a very comfortable, technologically advanced and healthy life. While there are resources, and they are well managed, and people own them, all is well. Technology advances, everyone’s happy.

Well not in the west, the story was a bit different there. Lack of resources, food, hygiene, health and lack of an enlightened society mainly due to the over-powered church and its associated institutions, life was not so good. Human beings are amazing creatures. Humans, as groups of people are clever beings. To survive, the west started to get clever. With what little you have, you have to get clever or you will perish. Instead of perishing the west started advancing in maritime technology and from 1400s and onwards started taking the longer route around the Ottoman empire to the East, around Africa and started discovering new places, ports, colonizing and establishing new settlements along the way. Once they reached India, no wars were fought, the Indians did not really understand what was going on but the white man was their friend that wasn’t going to leave without taking what was rightfully theirs, resources.

For hundreds of years, they collected so many resources that at the end, the resources this time were going to perish at home in Europe, or they were going to make use of them. Excessive resources gave birth to the industrial era. The excess raw material was not found, collected or produced in Europe or Britain, they were collected, rightfully from their origins in the East. And the west, for the betterment of humanity, for total humanitarian cause, started the industrial revolution.

What was once a wasteland, the desert for the westerners, became the ultimate goal for global control. As the world industrialized, oil and the possibilities that could be built, run, operated with it came to light. Hence the west needed to control the middle east now. As the Last Prophet says, “The power to defend countries against enemy has been divided into ten, nine of this was given to the Turks and one to the other nations. Stinginess has been divided into ten, nine was given to the Persians and one to the other nations.  Generosity has been divided into ten, nine given to the Sudanese, and one to the rest of the nations. Decency has been divided into ten, nine was given to the women, the rest to the men. Dissension’s been divided into ten, nine given to the Arabs, one to the rest. Arrogance has been divided into ten, nine given to the Rum(Westerners), one given to the rest.” Arabs have very quickly separated themselves from the Empire and joined forces with the British to fight their fellow Muslim rulers, the Ottomans. Borders were drawn with rulers, nations that did not exist before came to existence.

The fondness for the British of the people of the Middle East and the West come from this little liberation help they got. The liberation have helped form new countries however the West have really shown why in the first place this was done when they formed Israel out of nowhere, when they invaded the region a couple times, to control the resources. As the black race in America, and the lesser nations of Europe became more and more of a Christian, got assimilated more and more, who can argue the need for a new enemy. The middle eastern man, the Muslim more generally, the age old enemy of the west Welcome back. So when you observe how the western bum on the street tries to find a reason for his diminishing resources, his lack of having a home with a garden being taken away from him, it’s all because of the man with the bushy eyebrows, the dark skinned Arab Really? Is that really why it’s happening?

A whole system built on theft of resources from all around the world without actual means of technological advancement and production, without a link to reality is bound to fail. A society built on resources collected from elsewhere, leaving the elsewhere poor and needy is bound to fail. You cannot build your happiness on another’s suffering. Printing money out of nowhere will only get you so far, until when I say I don’t accept that piece of paper anymore. But still, there are the armies, who will invade, if you say you will not accept their printed paper, as in the case of US invading Iraq as Saddam then decided he would not accept dollars anymore for oil . Twist in the story is the US did not actually fight an organized army as they were invading Iraq did they? All the Iraqi generals had then disbanded their armies anyway, the US army while technologically definitely advanced, is not stronger than the movies of the Hollywood, because a war is fought against humans, and humans will find a way to survive.