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Glass Houses; Society of the Future..
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The following is from
http://www.near-death.com/experiences/cayce11.html
This excerpt is about a vision of the future from Edgar Cayce, a Kentucky psychic of yesteryear.
Begin.
Cayce’s glimpse of his next incarnation and a view into the future
Cayce once had a prophetic dream involving an event in his next incarnation on earth. It gives us an interesting look into the future:
“I had been born again in 2100 A.D. in Nebraska. The sea apparently covered all of the western part of the country, as the city where I lived was on the coast. The family name was a strange one. At an early age as a child I declared myself to be Edgar Cayce who had lived 200 years before. Scientists, men with long beads, little hair, and thick glasses, were called in to observe me. They decided to visit the places where I said I had been born, lived, and worked in Kentucky, Alabama, New York, Michigan, and Virginia.
“Taking me with them the group of scientists visited these places in a long, cigar-shaped metal flying ship which moved at a high speed.
“Water covered part of Alabama. Norfolk, Virginia, had become an immense seaport. New York had been destroyed either by war or an immense earthquake and was being rebuilt. Industries were scattered over the countryside. Most of the houses were built of glass. Many records of my work as Edgar Cayce were discovered and collected.
“The group returned to Nebraska, taking the records with them to study… These changes in the earth will come to pass, for the time and times and half times are at an end, and there begins those periods for the readjustments…”
From the list of prophecies that Cayce gave which proved successful, his prophecies of the future should be seriously considered. However, Cayce himself stated that the future is not fixed and that human free will makes virtually everything possible.
End excerpt.
“New plastic is strong as steel, transparent” article..
http://www.physorg.com/news110727530.html
If all houses in all communities were completely transparent, it would effectively eliminate burglary as well as both physical and sexual abuse within the family.
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Patrick Yen
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Fri Oct 05 03:16:26 UTC 2007
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Bowling Green, KY,
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Perhaps it’s better to read the end first.
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As photographers, we all know that people behave differently when they know they’re being observed.
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Happy Halloween, ladies and gentlemen..
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Sustained anarchy?
Would you even need a police force?
Didn’t our ancestors live in tree-communities
(with no privacy) for millions of years?
Don’t many chimpanzees have almost complete visual transparency in their protocultures?
Is that where society is going?
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I think this is an interesting thought experiment,
and I would like to get as much feedback from visual thinkers as possible.
This isn’t something I think will come about in the near future,
just possibly the far-far future.
Most of us value our privacy now,
but who’s to say that will be the case in 100 years?
It seems like society is moving towards transparency.
Foucault’s essay on panopticism:
http://foucault.info/documents/disciplineAndPunish/foucault.disciplineAndPunish.panOpticism.html
As Foucault may or may not demonstrate in his legendary essay,
panopticism (as an intellectual, sociological, and anthropological concept)
relates very heavily to the profession and philosophy of photojournalism.
Perhaps it’s better to read the end of Foucault’s essay first..
“Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons?”
Are these sociological patterns slowly (or quickly) unfolding?
I think they are.
It’s only a matter of time.
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People who live in glass houses should not throw stones.
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Hello Mike,
I see by your profile that you are perhaps a fan of Thoreau.
Here is one of my favorite quotes from Thoreau, who of course was a transcendentalist:
“Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life.
Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.”
-Henry David Thoreau
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transcendentalism |ˌtranˌsenˈdentlˌizəm| noun
1 ( Transcendentalism)
an idealistic philosophical and social movement that developed in New England around 1836 in reaction to rationalism. Influenced by romanticism, Platonism, and Kantian philosophy, it taught that divinity pervades all nature and humanity, and its members held progressive views on feminism and communal living. Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau were central figures.
2 a system developed by Immanuel Kant, based on the idea that, in order to understand the nature of reality, one must first examine and analyze the reasoning process that governs the nature of experience.
DERIVATIVES transcendentalist (also Transcendentalist) noun & adjective
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I have no idea what a transcendentalist is, because I am not smart enough, although it does sound like some sort of pot-smoking hippy who has too much time on his hands.
Trancendalist, or whatever. One of those words that is too difficult to pronounce, even sober.
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Thank you for communicating your hatred.
I appreciate your transparency.
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I guess what I’m really asking here is whether or not it is possible to sustain anarchy with “glass” houses,
transparent houses in which the “glass” is bulletproof and stronger than steal.
It is believed by many social scientists that there was much less physical and sexual abuse in the family before the advent of the industrial revolution.
(Of course what constitutes “abuse” is culturally defined..)
This is believed because most agrarian housing that predated the industrial revolution
consisted of one open room that was shared by the entire family.
Because there was little or no privacy,
it was much harder for abuse to occur unnoticed.
The advent of the industrial revolution and of more “developed,” modern economies as we know them,
has given rise to the compartmentalization of homes and has lead to an overall increase in privacy.
Because antisocial behaviors are more likely to occur in privacy,
abusive behavior is thus more likely to occur in more modern, developed housing – the housing that many of us are accustomed to today.
Jon Anderson, if you’re reading, I would like to hear your thoughts on this topic.
You are currently living in a developing country, correct?
Do you think it might be possible to sustain “anarchy” or “anarchism”
with transparent, bullet proof buildings?
Do you think this could become a norm at any point in the future?
Does modern compartmentalized architecture
have any effect of “alienation” on the psychology of people who are living in developed modern economies?
What would be the “Marxist” perspective?
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