It's debatable if we even have subconsciousness, at least in the way that Freud thought about it. But, on a global level we can actually talk about both consciousness and the subconscious.
The media and history is all about the conscious world. They tell the stores that all of us know about. About the BP oil-disaster, about global summits, sporting events, natural disasters, hunger, war and all those other things that all of us know about.
Your private history and the history of your family is subconscious to the world. You know about it, your family knows about it. But the WORLD doesn't know.
For most of us own unique insights probably doesn't register on a global level. We live, think, love and die with out the world really noticing.
That's about to change.
And the internet is to blame. Internet technology has made it possible for still more people to communicate everything to everyone. Not that everyone is listening, like we do in cases of global disasters. But there is someone outthere, with almost the same outlook on life as you. And you might connect. And when you connect, you make it easier for people who live, think and love in similar ways to find you. And connect. And make it easer for other people who live, think and love in similar ways to find you. And connect.
The internet is many thing, but in my mind it's first and foremost an amplifier. The voices of people like you and me rarely made it into the history books in the past. But now, thanks to the internet and it's seemingly endless memory, our voices will live forever, maybe as data-junk or in vast research databases about our times.
The stories of ordinary people are now being preserved. Your pet-projects will be read and stored by robots from big corporations like google. And although your data will be deleted from a lot of places, every year makes it more likely that your pages, your words and your take on reality will survive as data into the far future.
We are the subconscious of earth. And someone is finally paying attention.
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