#appollonian

vi vs. emacs is just a reiteration of the Apollonian/Dionysian conflict

Indeed, I am arguing that the evolution of the digital world and the Internet is a technological development of the concept of the res cogitans. The Internet is the result of Descartes’ concept of a collective immortal soul, with all of its problems, chief among which is the absence from the Internet of anything bacchantic and Dionysian. As such, it is a major threat to the further evolution of the human species, and the saving of the earth, if nothing Dionysian can be recuperated. So far there is no digital Dionysus, and there cannot be, given the forceful separation of soul/mind from body that the Internet has established. As such it is, however, a most powerful tool for the Apollonian ordering of the totality of the social and political realities of the human species. The Internet is the profoundest way so far of realizing the Christian project of separating mind and soul from body. As such it is the most efficient way of crystalizing the Cartesian project of separating the res cogitans from all physical reality, the earth and all of its forms of life. It creates a whole world where the body is a nuisance.