the timboucher experience

This is from over two years ago, but it’s worth talking about, in relation to things like Living Languages, Peer-Generated Open-Source Semantic Symbol Sets And Context Systems (PGOSSSS-CS). The article comes from a site looking a lot like the BBC’s, and talks about the word “time” being the most popularly-used word of that year (2006). I guess they measured somehow or other using the internet - which means they got to cherry-pick sources based on what technological paradigm they were operating under. But their findings interest me greatly:

According to them:

TOP 10 NOUNS
1 Time
2 Person
3 Year
4 Way
5 Day
6 Thing
7 Man
8 World
9 Life
10 Hand

Each one of those could be looked at as a reference point, and they can be chained together into a sentence or “tag cloud” to use internet parlance: (Punctuation added according to how I hear it internally)

Time person, year way day:
Thing man, world life hand.

Or elaborated into an esoteric “ghost” (or dream) email microformat:

[Date]
[Recipient]
[Method]
[Message]

With the message being something like, “The thing is man, you got the World, and all of Life, right there at hand. [Make the best of of it]” - with that last part being, I think implied.

Another source, of course, is suggesting that our mass un-realized communication as a human race goes something more like:

http www a in it the 2008 i e com

In other words, a weird dream email website URL. Let’s see if there’s a corresponding one, if we interpret that a little bit:

http://www.ainitthe2008ie.com

Nope, no such domain name. But it sure is an interesting and weird-looking word, don’t you think? Somehow, perhaps, poetically indicative of the age we live in and the sorts of letterforms, wordforms, thoughtforms and poetic songs we’re singing and living within every day, but without ever really realizing it.

I’m curious what it would be like if we learned to harmonize our respective songs. If everyone on the internet made a conscious decision to impact the “top ten words on the web” by simply using certain words more than others. Favoring certain modes of expression so that automated and automatic processes and patterns which swirl about and dance in digital dervish frenzies will develop according to certain rhythms and patterns of our conscious choosing and living.

What words should we use more? What should be our top ten? Maybe the worldwide conversation occurring in a new international language on the subject humanity’s most important words and concepts should automatically determine those same top ten words. Linguistic biopheedback mechanisms on the collective human mind and vibrational resonance:

Google trends say today’s top ten are:

1. rhodes scholar
2. sooner
3. tina sherman
4. my big fat greek wedding
5. john 17 1
6. oklahoma sooners
7. myron rolle
8. batman beyond
9. sam bradford
10. the santa clause

Who right now are the unseen figures influencing what those words are which appear on Google’s top ten? Are they people like Edward Bernays combined with some aspect of chaotic emergent natural human herd trend behavioral patterning? [Note how many of their daily top 100 are consumer products of some kind...] Bernays said:

“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country.”

“If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without their knowing it.”

If that’s true, how do we take back our thoughts? On the level of what words and images we feed ourselves with and re-transmit as expressions of our identity? It’s time we become more aware of what we are saying and its impact on our realities.

Web technology of the future - and what will replace it - above and beyond anything else, will be about giving humans, animals and other entities the ability to feed back into and directly manipulate the environmental systems and other patterns within which their experience is directly embedded.

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