A significant part of “the meaning of life” is to intervene in some way — to make a contribution, to have an impact, etc. (cf. Viktor Frankl’s notion of so-called “logotherapy”).
I choose to intervene online. I don’t need to march around, get into a car, drive somewhere, or get into a plane to travel to some far away city in order to shake someone’s hand. I prefer to chill out at home. I have a pretty strong hunch that I’m not the only one taking this approach.
As my more or less regular readers probably have long since realized, I am not a big fan of ASS (“Artificially Sentient Slop”). But this week I decided to revive another intervention: Humans. I want to intervene in order to bring human literacy (and human publicacy [1] … and generally: human communications) back to life. Right now human communicative ability is dormant at best, probably much closer to comatose and desperately in need of revival.
So yesterday I revived one of my blogging projects and as a result managed to publish “[survivor-space.com] It’s Just One Of Those Day’s……” [ http://jax.news.blog/2026/07/18/survivor-space-com-its-just-one-of-those-days ]. The JAX News project is focussed on fostering better communications across blogs by providing a space for comments to be published if / when they remain unpublished at the blogs they were “submitted” to. Yesterday’s post is particularly ironic because the blogger in question had published a post lamenting about the poor quality of communications at her blog, yet obviously (to me) failed to see that she herself was contributing to creating this outcome that she seemed to think was attributable simply to unfortunate forces of nature. Yet hers is not a rare case: time and again I am reminded how many humans fail to acknowledge that communication is a cooperative process, and that finger-pointing is contra-productive to true progress.
As I sit back and wonder this lazy Sunday morning (rather than “leaning in” as I hear Sheryl Sandberg so strongly advocates), I am also speculating to what degree “force of nature” arguments hold up in a world obviously endowed with sizable amounts of “Human Brain Conditioner” technology (see also e.g. my post earlier today about “How to Be the Most-Watched Person in the Known Universe” [ https://podcasts.video.blog/2026/07/19/how-to-be-the-most-watched-person-in-the-known-universe ] ).
I do not claim to have a definitive answer to many such questions. I expect the “true” outcome may very well be not only that “time will tell”, but that what we actually do in that time will also play a significant part. and I also feel that improvements in human communications (or NOT) may indeed play a crucial role.
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