Hacker; The Discoverer of Fire
Hacker:
Its root, to hack, means the ability to cope or manage. Lots of people leave because they can't hack it. Is a term that original comes from the MIT train club in 1946. They defined a hacker as someone who applies ingenuity to create a clever result, called a hack.
Today hacker is incorrectly used for someone that commits crimes of electronic nature. Hacker took strong root in the computer industry in Silicon Vally. Steve Wozniak, a self-proclaimed hacker, would spend hours hacking away at code. Later he would go on to help invent the personal computer.
I am a hacker.
Not a cracker, or a script-kiddie, but part of the necessary group of people along with Galileo, De-Vinci, Wozniak, that will push the boundaries of society in order to preserve growth for humanity.
All empires, society or parts of humanity will do everything with in their power to preserve their current nature. It is the job of the free thinkers, the scientist, and the out cast to explore, develop, and invent progress. The moment progress stops, so shall humanity.
Black & White: The Shades of Gray
Many people say, or "feel", that things can be in a binary state of black in white. This is normally a representation of Good or Evil, or bad. The main debt used against the binary point of view, is that of marshal arts in many respects. A weapon is neither good or bad, just the use, if it is used for bad then the user is the evil one. Then comes the questions of morality of why it was used, if it was used to slay a evil in order to save a innocent.
This point is very often stonewalled by the binary, saying the slayer is now also an evil, they did not rid evil just replace it. For anyone keeping score,
Situation 1: 1 Evil, -1 Good
Situation 2: 1-1+1=1 Evil, 1 Good
I today, bring a new argument to the tables of the Binary's:
First we must agree on some "ground rules", Adolf Hitler & The Holocaust is evil. Stopping Evil is good.
Among the many internal attempts against Hitler's life was the now famous 'Operation Valkyrie'(Unternehmen Walküre). In the operation the primary goal was to kill Hitler and gain control of the German government.
The operation was a failure, this is bad, on the grounds that it failed to stop Hitler's actions including the Holocaust. About 8 months later Hitler commits suicide, this is good.
If we are agreed on these 'ground rules':
What do they have to do with each other?
Hitler ended his life after making many bad choices costing greatly. These poor choices the gave way to his down fall where due to his paranoia among his own staff, this paranoia extended to his staff when a section of them tried to kill him. So the connection is that while 'Operation Valkyrie' was a failure, it was a success that it lead to end of Hitler's Germany.
You can not say 'Operation Valkyrie' was successful, making it good, but you can not say it was a complete failure making it bad. I give you Gray!
Modern Male Mentalities
Games have a long history, in some of its recent history would be some of the roman gladiators. These where the male games, man who needed to prove that they where alpha males would turn to war like games. Yes, many of the gladiators were slaves but some where not.
Today, many males play video games. Of them a lot of them will not even consider a Single Player (SP) game. I propose the question, are these males tapping into there animistic nature to prove that they are in fact better, and alpha males, of this created world? Everyone has that idea, and has meet that frat boy mega gamer who's small and vulgar vocabulary becomes insulting not in the fact they call people faggits, but in how often they use that word. Are these the alpha males of the new era, not the geniuses that we all thought?
The ESA concluded that in 2010 the average age of a US gamer was 35.
The Power of Restrictions
Recently in an argument with a friend of mine, about changes in Starcraft II, my point was lost.
Restrictions are a wonderful thing. Man did not seek the ability to fly due to that of birds, but because of the sky. Creativity comes from restrictions, many artist have a failure to communicate, with that they where drove to other means. Music has the ability to express pure emotions without that of words, paintings have the ability to give you a glimpse into the perspective of another man's mind.
Some see restrictions as a negative thing, they are unfortunately restricted. From their restriction comes the drive and the desire to preserve all that is current, for protection and survival. Advancement has no place without people, and people have no place without Advancement.