The Socialization of Nature's Pests

(These are just thoughts, after all. But hey, they're there to be shared...)

Scrolling down through my Facebook wall the other morning, I found myself astonished at how much of themselves people are now willing to volunteer. Myself included.

Ideas, thoughts, emotions, suggestions, opinions, loves, hates, recommendations, cautions, do's, dont's, oohh's, ahh's and everything in between.

What's more, the nature and timing of many of the posts exhibit an ever shrinking period of 'consideration', between Creating and Sharing. As if we've reached a new level of spontaneity. A new level of comfort and confidence to share with instinct and altruism.

The social cynics may sneer and jape at this new level of transparency.com, but personally I think it poses a much more exciting question: Has our New Social Order started to bloom into the majesty that Nature intended it for?

Read me out...

On reflection, the only other candidate I can think of that demonstrates the same degree of innocent spontaneity is, well, Nature herself. In all aspects; good, bad, awesome and terrifying. But over the years, mankind's well documented history of fxxxing things up, slowly led to our unique isolation from this most precious of Nature's laws.

But as we all know, and are seeing with increasing frequency across the world, Nature takes and creates, and knows no limitation when needs must. And in our case, Needs have most certainly Must, for many, many years.

So perhaps, in Her own fantastic way, the inspiration and genius behind the creation of the Social Web phenomenon is another of Nature's tricks. A deliberate and timely gift that has allowed mankind to reestablish - on our own terms and in our own time - that level of interconnectivity, transparency and unification that once upon a time, made her, and us, the envy of the Universe.

Good things.

CB

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