Interview
Dr Brian Hilton
The Global Silk Road:
Globalisation, Islam and the Creation and Distribution of Knowledge Using the INTERNET.
Dr Brian Hilton
The Global Silk Road:
Globalisation, Islam and the Creation and Distribution of Knowledge Using the INTERNET.
Interviewer: So what would you say your book is about
Brian: You could say our future but as I do not know that I write about the processes leading to it. This shift in perspective is vital. It empowers one to see, our thoughts and the world they create, in what, I believe, is their true intended light.
Interviewer: But surely your book deals with the impact of the Internet on the relationship between the East and the West. You even suggest Islam is a model reflecting how this can be effected.
Brian: Yes. I cover that. However this is only a current manifestation of the process I truly wish to draw attention to, “evolution” or more correctly “social evolution”, seen as an adaptive process. The East West Global Connection is not new. It is perennial. What is new is the means we have now to effect it.
The INTERNET only makes the process more evident. It does not create it. Globalization or adventurously “Universalization” just is. It is so. It is the truth. One can choose to see that or not. That is our right.
Those that choose to see, for example Lao Tzu 2500 years ago in the Tao Te Ching, provide us with means to see the significance of “The Way” for action. We all see what is sculpted. Some of us see the sculpting. We never see the sculptor. Lao Tzu called it “The Way”, Christ called it “The Way the Truth and the Light”, Mohammed, Buddha et al deal with such realities. We do not.
Instead we take the sculpted form such teachers start from and see that as indicative of the end we believe they wish for us. This is never on “The Way”. We should treat them, and what we see of their revelation, as temporary manifestation of the truth of the process. We never do yet it is only this that never changes. What it manifests always changes. This is what is constant. The form it creates is not. This is true also of the philosophies trying to help us see, Taoism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, etc. These provide pointers to The Way. They are signposts to and on “The Way” but not “The Way”. Fundamentalism thus denies the Universe and so God. Fundamentalism is the ultimate apostasy.
Interviewer: That is strong stuff. Why does the book dwell on business, or should I say enterprise, and networking?
Brian: As I said none of this is new . The only new thing is the speed and pace at which it occurs. This is significant. However “New Age People” and religious philosophers and environmentalists go on as to what we have to, should or ought to, do to save ourselves and our planet. This I believe is presumptive of the universe’s, or if you like God’s, purpose. We can only choose how to respond.
This is enterprise. This is not driven by imperatives, only interests, individual and collective. What currently motivates us determines the end never our perception of the end itself. Our purpose is to adapt to what the universe presented us with. This determines the future not ideals. The enterprising see this others do not.
The patterns of thought on the INTERNET that are significant are those that others support. These unsurprisingly are relationships, collective and personal, pleasure, survival, sex and the technology of the systems itself.
I checked before we started and the things that mattered to people on this planet with access to the Internet as tracked by “Technorati” in the hour we speak are:
Bush China ChristianityEducationFeedpath Firefox Haditha Dan Brown Da Vinci Codes Movies Religion Robert Langdon Tom Hanks Iran Iraq Microsoft MP3 Sex Soccer Web2 Wordpress World Cup Youtube………………………………………….
It is this that fascinates me. It is this we need to pay attention to if we wish to understand ourselves and our futures if we have one. The connections between blogsites and so people these tags represent are like patterns of connectivity in a huge brain that spans the planet
Interviewer: And that is all
Brian: Yes, if our interest is our common future, and that is never determined by what clever people feel we ought to bother about but what people actually choose to bother about that is what really matters. The former may influence the latter but not with any certainty.
This book is about what effects our collective thinking and so planetary consciousness. It is this that determines our future and if you look at the above it is our collective, spiritual reproductive, and recuperative interests that drive collective consciousness. This to me seems neither good or bad. It merely reflects what we are which is what the universe not other human beings expect. One religion is mentioned here but at an other hour it could be Islam or Buddhism or Hinduism and if I had searched in Arabic, Hindi or Chinese then it would probably have been one of these others.
Brian: You could say our future but as I do not know that I write about the processes leading to it. This shift in perspective is vital. It empowers one to see, our thoughts and the world they create, in what, I believe, is their true intended light.
Interviewer: But surely your book deals with the impact of the Internet on the relationship between the East and the West. You even suggest Islam is a model reflecting how this can be effected.
Brian: Yes. I cover that. However this is only a current manifestation of the process I truly wish to draw attention to, “evolution” or more correctly “social evolution”, seen as an adaptive process. The East West Global Connection is not new. It is perennial. What is new is the means we have now to effect it.
The INTERNET only makes the process more evident. It does not create it. Globalization or adventurously “Universalization” just is. It is so. It is the truth. One can choose to see that or not. That is our right.
Those that choose to see, for example Lao Tzu 2500 years ago in the Tao Te Ching, provide us with means to see the significance of “The Way” for action. We all see what is sculpted. Some of us see the sculpting. We never see the sculptor. Lao Tzu called it “The Way”, Christ called it “The Way the Truth and the Light”, Mohammed, Buddha et al deal with such realities. We do not.
Instead we take the sculpted form such teachers start from and see that as indicative of the end we believe they wish for us. This is never on “The Way”. We should treat them, and what we see of their revelation, as temporary manifestation of the truth of the process. We never do yet it is only this that never changes. What it manifests always changes. This is what is constant. The form it creates is not. This is true also of the philosophies trying to help us see, Taoism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, etc. These provide pointers to The Way. They are signposts to and on “The Way” but not “The Way”. Fundamentalism thus denies the Universe and so God. Fundamentalism is the ultimate apostasy.
Interviewer: That is strong stuff. Why does the book dwell on business, or should I say enterprise, and networking?
Brian: As I said none of this is new . The only new thing is the speed and pace at which it occurs. This is significant. However “New Age People” and religious philosophers and environmentalists go on as to what we have to, should or ought to, do to save ourselves and our planet. This I believe is presumptive of the universe’s, or if you like God’s, purpose. We can only choose how to respond.
This is enterprise. This is not driven by imperatives, only interests, individual and collective. What currently motivates us determines the end never our perception of the end itself. Our purpose is to adapt to what the universe presented us with. This determines the future not ideals. The enterprising see this others do not.
The patterns of thought on the INTERNET that are significant are those that others support. These unsurprisingly are relationships, collective and personal, pleasure, survival, sex and the technology of the systems itself.
I checked before we started and the things that mattered to people on this planet with access to the Internet as tracked by “Technorati” in the hour we speak are:
Bush China ChristianityEducationFeedpath Firefox Haditha Dan Brown Da Vinci Codes Movies Religion Robert Langdon Tom Hanks Iran Iraq Microsoft MP3 Sex Soccer Web2 Wordpress World Cup Youtube………………………………………….
It is this that fascinates me. It is this we need to pay attention to if we wish to understand ourselves and our futures if we have one. The connections between blogsites and so people these tags represent are like patterns of connectivity in a huge brain that spans the planet
Interviewer: And that is all
Brian: Yes, if our interest is our common future, and that is never determined by what clever people feel we ought to bother about but what people actually choose to bother about that is what really matters. The former may influence the latter but not with any certainty.
This book is about what effects our collective thinking and so planetary consciousness. It is this that determines our future and if you look at the above it is our collective, spiritual reproductive, and recuperative interests that drive collective consciousness. This to me seems neither good or bad. It merely reflects what we are which is what the universe not other human beings expect. One religion is mentioned here but at an other hour it could be Islam or Buddhism or Hinduism and if I had searched in Arabic, Hindi or Chinese then it would probably have been one of these others.
Our books point is that we should focus on the processes driving our connectivity to understand what will occur not the specific subject matter at any point. Connectivity is good as is diversity reproduction and joy and if these exist the universe is happy with us so why would we want anything else?
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