Feed = intellectual food. And what about intellectual sex?
In the current world, how can cultural works still profoundly influence people, as they did before the internet era? Which technologies are merely external forms, and which are also content that leads to internalization? Why is depth, as in sex, defeated by the repetitiveness of food? On the spiritual portrait of the thinker from Netanya as a parable for the era, the spirit of the times - and the matter of the times
By: Every serious philosophy begins with a confession
Google of time: The time is ripe for a combination of Google and Facebook - a personalized feed from the entire internet of everything that interests you. An algorithm that works like this - will change the world
(Source)What had an impact? What was important? What was perceived as unquestionably important and great, and consumed repeatedly, meaning something that was divided into small packages and consumed over time - therefore no film. Only a movie watched many times can influence life. Or a massive film, like Shoah [Holocaust]. What did? TV series. The format of once a week, not binge-watching, not in succession, which then everything dies, is forgotten, the brain doesn't process deeply. Are these the best series I've seen? No, but these are the ones that captured the imagination. Encyclopedia, read over and over again. Music, which I listened to repeatedly. What I read in extensively until I almost knew by heart, not in order. The Torah - the weekly portion and the Haftarah [prophetic portion], every week. Lectures I listened to on headphones, entire courses - only what I listened to over time. Only places I visited again and again. Newspaper. Teachers. Things that were divided into small parts and lasted for years. What I would open here and there and read.
But here's another factor - what was considered relatively new. The last word in a certain field. The last agreed-upon big thing. Studies, due to their non-repetitive nature, concentration of effort at certain times, had almost no influence. The internalization was very low. In no institution. Because there wasn't much repetition. Only deep diving. It's not enough. I once thought that deep diving was important. But what's important is to encounter something over time. There are no points that change life, only lines, dotted lines. Almost all things were not only not consumed formally, but I also didn't reach them formally. The most important thing was to understand what's important. And in this, whoever influenced - influenced. More than anyone. He was there over time.
Things could have been terribly important for their time, but not influence in the long term, even things that I was deeply impressed by. Genius doesn't help like repetitiveness. You can't save time, you can't beat time, you can't test on something to know it, to teach it, on the contrary, that's how you know it but there's no internalization. The diet is what's important over time. That's why Google won't influence the world like Facebook, which has become the platform where people sign up for content, where they consume content or a person over time.
Google is more form, and Apple is even more form, like Intel, these are things not on the relevant plane. Google influenced me more through YouTube lectures. But their influence is also limited because it's not multi-time. Therefore, the most important thing in the world is feed. A truly big and successful startup will make you a feed from the entire internet. Will allow you to control the feed. The laziness of push information will always beat the pull. In the world of information - food will defeat sex.