"The Social Network"

Watched "The Social Network" earlier tonight.
Was taken in immediately by David Fincher's ability to contrast humanity's high hopes with humanity's Shadow.
The movie reminded me of Fincher's most famous film, "Fight Club" at certain points. But I'm cool with that. It's like your favorite band, developing a style and exploring it more in other albums.
If you haven't heard of this movie-which I don't think is many at this point-it's the origin story to what is now the most visited website in the world, Facebook.
It is the tale of young Mark Zuckerburg, and his business relationships he keep in the creation and launch of the website. Zuckerberg was sued by both the people who claim he stole their idea, and his first CFO of the company, who was also his best friend before the site launch.
Basic drift from the movie that I got about the Hollywood version of the guy who created Facebook, is that dude acted like a creep and a dick as he moved closer and closer towards achieving his goal.
Facebook may soon be worth 50 Billion dollars, making it worth more money than one of the biggest Media corporations in the world, Time Warner.
Mark Zuckerburg may now be worth 15 Billion dollars.

I saw the movie as almost a check from the culture industry towards this young guy, Zucks. Oh yeah, he's the youngest billioniare on the plant.
The lesson that Zuckerberg keeps getting schooled in is that of being a connected human being. How ironic that the man who is credited with connecting so many people across the world, be such an idiot when it comes to cool human relationships.
Zuckerberg is portrayed as having an extreme amount of focus. The type of single mindedness that scientist/inverntors/innovators are usually shown as in the movies. His mission consumes him.
In his pursuit, he ends up burning every early bridge he built to get where he has gotten.

Anyway, all this got me thinking about Social Networking and Social Programming.
Douglas Rushkoff these days is saying that the game is not in Blogging, the game is in Programming.
So while it is very cool and fun to write and be a blogger
It might be more fun to learn how exactly the programming works
This way you can be aware of how sites have been programmed.

John C.Lilly wrote a lot about Programming too.
In his books, "The Center of the Cyclone" and "The Scientist" explained in detail
about working with his own "programs"
He made the analogy to the human being as that of a "bio-computer"
utilizing such terminology to coincide with science, and wishing to avoid mixing it up with religious metaphors.
Lilly was a neuroscientist, so that choice makes sense.
We have within us, right now, many different programs running at once.
Some of them are working in unison, and some of them are in contradiction to each other.
The deeper programs, the ones we don't usually hear in our everyday hectic lives, work their way through the hardware of our body.
Some programs run like tape loops, over and over again, and we find ourselves doing the same things, or thinking the same things, or feeling the same way, over and over again.

Invoking Rushkoff one more time, I believe he has been able to deconstruct ways that social institutions have been willing and able to implement social programs for financial gain.
Other Social Programs have manifested with the propagation of religions as well.
Point blank, we live in a world of multitudinous social programs. Each with there own agenda.
Some Fun, Some Creepy. And many many more in between.

To me Alchemy is the ability to transmute the type of programs that run within ones own self. The ability to consciously change programs within oneself to experience more beauty, truth, freedom, and love in this world is the work of a great Magician, a great Shaman, and a great Artist.
The work continues then with the ability to facilitate such alchemical changes in others.

What does all this have to do with Facebook?
The whole Internet is comprised of Programming.
The programs build the virtual room that you meet in.
I want to be part of a social network that understands all this about
Programming, both individual and social, and seeks to raise the knowledge
of those involved about such things.

Do you think this can be the social network for that?