The Ecology of Media: we are not the divine

The Telescope.

Galileo, deemed the Father of Telescopes, is given most of the credit towards the invention of the telescope (although ideas and more primitive inventions were created by many others. With the telescope Galileo was able to see past the naked eye, past the clouds, past the blue sky, past the philosopher's writings, and past the heavens. Literally, the telescope changed the way we look at the world.

The order of the cosmos is wrong; the Earth is not the center of the universe. The telescope opened our eyes up to a universe that made us humans not so divine. The telescope has reduced Earth to a mere planet among thousands of other planets part of a galaxy, which is only one of thousands of other galaxies that make up the universe. I don't mean to take away from anything extraordinary about the existence of Earth and its inhabitants, Earth is still unique and so far we have not met a match to our life forms. However, as the telescope was originally satisfy our natural hunger for knowledge, to turn the unknown into the known. We wanted to know what was out there. What is our place in the universe? Still to this day we are building up answers to the questions to ultimately explain life. The newest multi-million dollar project, the James Webb Space Telescope, explain "the Big Bang" and its connection with the creation of our galaxy (the Milk Way).

The telescope allows us to understand the surrounding universe, which we stand as a speck of a speck of a speck of a speck of a speck. The closer we get to answering this seemingly unanswerable question, the closer we will get to finding out that the meaning of life is raw and unique to every individual. We will be able to strip away all the fake beliefs that control our lives and the decisions we make.

participatory journalism right here.

I find myself crossing my previous personal boundaries, clicking, typing, and entering my emotions, feelings and thoughts into cyberspace. Although I have both Facebook and MSN accounts that already unveil a lot of my character. I have found it difficult to broadcast my thoughts and life over the internet for unknown eyes to glare at. I have changed my Facebook privacy settings so that I am not a victim of a "creeping." Originally with blogging I picture a website where people leave posts with pictures, links, videos, and notes from their daily lives, giving billions of people a single click away from entering view of my life. Creating a blog is remarkably easy. After looking at many other blogs, and even participating in some basketball discussions during my daily surf, blogging has started to grow on me. I find it interesting reading personal journals, and see a participatory aspect to report news and commenting on it. And from what I have seen news can be anything, from the pungent odour coming in line at the bank to a personally biased recount of the filming done here at Guelph. When surfing the web and looking at various blogs I find the title of the book we are to be reading, "Amusing Ourselves to Death", echoing in my head. Instead of contributing in the sometimes deafening echo, I hope to use this blog as to understand more about myself, to force myself to criticize (or sometimes just ramble) about what is going on in my life.

blog 1, the beginning, testing, first thoughts?

We'll here we are. I like the idea of this for the course. I Hope that my excitement for this blog just keeps growing. Hope I see this come out on MY blog after. I don't find myself surrounded by all the latest technology, and although my room is very dark (like a cave), I am not a caveman. I have a desktop computer, love it, do as much as I can with it. But I do not feel the need to update my electronics collection every time a new flyer comes out. Although, I still may be considered a Luddite because I do nbt own a cell phone, but did own a set of walkie-talkies in grade 1...and now...I have a blog. lets see if this works