I-A:
Cyber
Advantages
and disadvantages of the internet
This
cyber section consists of a humanities directory
or a
cultural
links-list to all relevant
sites
that we on the net encountered concerning the
subject of our site, and other more focussed
link-pages like an overview of other
directories,
a separate
links-list with time-specific
sites
and a selection of specialized
links-sites,
as well as a recent
chat-address
by which one may link up for a personal contact
with the one signing for this. Also other sites
who could find themselves in our concept of
service can be found here.
More
and more is it for the 21th century of
importance that, mentioning sources of
importance, we directly are able to check them
out in the form of web presentations linked up
from a certain address. The internet is also
named the digital ether; it is one field
of connectedness linking everything up with
everything. That ether is the new foundation of
the realm of science the way G.W.F.
Hegel
confirmed it to be for the old ether in his
foreword to the Phenomenology of Spirit:
'The pure knowing of oneself is the absolute
being-different-from, this ether as such, is the
foundation and the realm of science or the
knowing in general. The beginning of philosophy
supposes or demands that the consciousness is
situated in this element.' Books do not form a
direct connection, their disadvantage is that
they, not being in one's possession, are not
directly available to check out; the
disadvantage of sites at the other hand is that,
being under construction, they can be of a more
tentative nature and all of a sudden may be
gone. Books one owns, sites not (unless
retrieved from a state-archive). Sites replace
books thus not directly, but do offer an
important extra source of information and
opportunity for interaction. The internet points
the way to a culture of knowledge that depends
less on property and accords better with the
dynamics of the spirit of the time and
the
human rights
concerning the availability of access to and
participation in the society focussed on
knowledge and information. Also restores the
internet the balance in the communication that
was disturbed by the one-sided flow of
information from radio and t.v. Each citizen may
now, outside the not rarely dreaded and hated
soulless falsehood of the institutions,
personally formulate an answer to those streams
of information. With publishers who are only
able to accept economically viable presentations
was that not an option for each. Knowledge
digitally and sometimes selfrealized,
revolutionairy present on the freer and less
repressive internet as a form of collective
property, the way we are used to with libraries,
is thus certainly a normal task to hearten for
us, people living together nationally and
internationally. In our links-list at this
cyber-section, which partly replaces a
reference-list with this site, we alas had to
downsize seriously the department that was
created for sympathizing commercial enterprises
because of an enormously knowledge-indifferent
interest, for after the tenth site about
garden-gnomes we had had enough of the
'declarations of solidarity' without a
reciprocal link or the evidence of an otherwise
proven serious form of commitment to the
content. Since then is for this purpose the
membership required of the so-called
Filognostic
Association.
Also sex-, drugs- en gamling-sites that against
all warnings of negation adamantly offered
themselves contrary to the explicitly stated
principles had to be shunned. Open communication
also has it's disadvantages thus: one must
manage time and again to filter out the
so-called spammers, those people who usually try
to impose unsolicited commercial information.
The
site linear as a perfection of the causal
illusion:

