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Daily Digest for October 5th

	Shared Stanislaw Lem, The Futurological Congress and the Future of Illusion.
	Published In effect, what this culture offers us is phony transcendence — the hope of a better, more interesting, world, shrink-wrapped in plastic. Like your typical con artist, it promises us everything for nothing, while it picks our pockets..
	Published we now routinely experience simulation confusion, in which we mistake realism for reality and think some of these fakes and simulations really are what they imitate.
	Published we have created a society in which much of the culture and politics, as well as the economy, is geared toward mass producing, and consuming, simulations..
	Published if we are going to replace nature with a truly human world, which aspects of our humanity will it be modeled after?.
	Published consumer culture now mass produces simulations that are used as substitutes for desired goods we can’t have or can’t have without paying some price..
	Published It shows us one possible future, which is already, to some degree, our present — a future of authentiphobia in which humanity is afraid of the real thing, and in which simulation and technology are used to help the self in its age-old quest to protect itself from the possibility of an authentic life..
	Published Like drugs, the technology offers intense peaks that often leave audiences hungering for more — more better reality — that is more exciting, more interesting, brighter and more perfect than anything else afforded by life..
	Published The pleasure principle triumphs over the reality principle and narcissism now governs in place of the world of necessity..
	Published As Freud might put it, we have constructed these technologies by using the powers of the ego — of rationality, science and technology — to build a universe of simulation governed by freedom from constraint, where the imagination is in control..
	Published Symbolic arenas are acts of self- and world-repair: they allow us to face and overcome simulated dangers and problems, which are a more exciting version of what we face in everyday life. In these characteristics, they are similar to daydreams, in which we convert our defeats into victories and our losses into gains to bolster the sense of safety and self-esteem..
	Published Simulation, the ultimate imitation of life, becomes a wall that stands between us and the true experience of life..
	Published After thousands of years in which we were immersed in our environment, we are being lifted out and given a broader view, and we are beginning to think of the world less as a cage or container and more as a tool or media we can use to get what we want..
	Published Our environment seems less like matter and more like an extension of the mind that controls it.
	Published Humanity, or a race much like our own, is shown becoming helpless and both practically and emotionally dependent on simulation and technology..
	Shared Will Books Be Napsterized?.
	Shared The Deconstruction of Reality.
	Published Self-generating realm of images, an endless surface with no underlying reality.
	Published This new Faustian age and civilization believes in the self and the self’s right and ability to control the conditions of its own existence.
	Published If you put the ideas of Freud, Maslow and Marcuse together, they lead to the conclusion that the true self has existed throughout history, and it has been “waiting” to be released from the prison created by our primitive psychodynamics, distorted cultures and oppressive social conditions. This true self isn’t an entity inside the mind, that is hidden by the mask of a false self. It is the full person we become when these numerous interferences are eliminated. It is willing to speak, hear and seek the truth about itself and society, without fleeing into the regressive symptoms offered by personal neurosis and popular culture. It is assertive, not aggressive; focused on living fully rather than on shoring up constantly-collapsing psychological defenses; it is able to love and work, and take pleasure and responsibility. It affirms life and compassion over hate and revenge..
	Shared DHS Wants To Hire 1,000 Cybersecurity Experts.
	Shared A rant about stupidity… and the coming civil war….
	Shared Facebook Measures Happiness in Status Updates.
	Shared Interactive piggy bank teaches kids about money.
	Shared How to connect iPhone/iPod Touch (Using USB) in Karmic/Jaunty/Intrepid/Hardy \| Ubuntu Geek.
	Shared Rupert to Internet: It’s War.
	Shared Radicals and Visionaries: Chris Anderson vs. 37Signals.
	Shared A graphical breakdown of the death of newspapers.
	Shared The Death of the Newspaper \| MintLife Blog \| Personal Finance News & Advice.
	Shared nopython — Bitcheese wiki.
	Shared The audacity of free.
	Shared Entire Cities Recreated Using Thousands of Flickr Photos.
	Shared There Are More Slaves Today Than at Any Time in Human History.
	Shared defunkt’s mustache at master – GitHub.

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