Interesting perspective on the Internet

I found this interesting take on the history of the internet:

Soooo....

The internet was designed by the military so that distributed survivors (the military and key government officials) could survive a nuclear holocaust. Consider that the internet, then, is a stronger weapon than an atomic bomb, because it is designed to survive it (same reason that paper beats rock). Is there any wonder that myspace exists? Myspace is why the military invented the original Arpanet back in the 60's: so that the alienated and seperated zombies could find each other and procreate.

Given that the nuclear bomb is at least partly responsible for the alienating factors of antisocialist existentialism, the network as a means of existential survival and recovery is really apt. It's kind of like we are already surviving an existential nuclear holocaust that takes place in possibility only, went into hiding, and now the possibility of reconnection is bringing us out of our bunkers. (So, was TV a practice system for entertaining the bunker-based survivors? It's another perfect system- almost all of our culture post 1945 was based on convenience for the isolated and unconnected.)

Posted by Eryk


Baudrillard says that the nuclear war has already happened... I guess this is what he means.