I don't think the "Gray Race" represents a lack of individuality here, or else the separation into "Black and White" would mean having a personality and that doesn't fit.
I think we are the Gray Race, the most culturally and racially mixed that's ever been, and yet, we keep separating ourselves into opposite groups, "Blacks and Whites" despite how unfitting they are for a Gray Race, so we shrivel, trapped in these dichotomies we build.
This separation was already built into the framework of our world, but the builders of this infrastructure (government, leaders, CEOs) still flexed their might inserting this same framework on the, then new, internet. Raw emotion was lost in digitalization and compassion was lost in the chase of profits (the perpetual motion machine and "fields of plus and minus" must refer to economics, as computers work with fields of ones and zeros or booleans).
The building of these new structures crushes our sense of self into rubble and turns us into shadows, or faded negatives of who we were, but isn't the construction of the internet or new infrastructures, albeit imperfect, still progress? Should we stop progress if it divides us, or can the Gray Race even build anything without permeating it with a "them and us" mentality?
I don't think the "Gray Race" represents a lack of individuality here, or else the separation into "Black and White" would mean having a personality and that doesn't fit. I think we are the Gray Race, the most culturally and racially mixed that's ever been, and yet, we keep separating ourselves into opposite groups, "Blacks and Whites" despite how unfitting they are for a Gray Race, so we shrivel, trapped in these dichotomies we build.
This separation was already built into the framework of our world, but the builders of this infrastructure (government, leaders, CEOs) still flexed their might inserting this same framework on the, then new, internet. Raw emotion was lost in digitalization and compassion was lost in the chase of profits (the perpetual motion machine and "fields of plus and minus" must refer to economics, as computers work with fields of ones and zeros or booleans).
The building of these new structures crushes our sense of self into rubble and turns us into shadows, or faded negatives of who we were, but isn't the construction of the internet or new infrastructures, albeit imperfect, still progress? Should we stop progress if it divides us, or can the Gray Race even build anything without permeating it with a "them and us" mentality?
I think that's our dilemma.