HiSaraW, as Adventureland moves on, it's not that women are paid less, it's just that the job becomes relatively less valuable. It's the nature of men and women and economic opportunities for glory. Men are risk taking challenging hunter-gather adventurer conquerors and women are cave dwelling safety baby growers. So of course when Cyberspace first appeared on the horizon men went charging in, risking all.
Male teachers, bank tellers and politicians are not paid more than women. Both are paid less than Geeks and other swash buckling warriors.
I bet that's a novel prediction: <When a woman is elected to the USA President's job, you'll know Cyberspace is really running the show. >
In the old days, politics was about megalomania and alpha maledom as one gang of men tried to rule over the tribe and defeat neighbouring tribes. There is still some of that, but in the advanced societies, there is no corner of a country free of kleptocratic suffocatocracy. Blokes have gone out to their sheds and have escaped to cyberspace where they are building positions apace.
Your references to Buddhism prompted me to have a quick read of Wikipedia about it. The similarity to cyberspace founding principles escapes me.
My aim is not a nihilistic detachment to avoid suffering, it's a matter of having strong attachment in such harmony with the four forces of the apocalypse that there is no suffering. Buddha had it wrong [though I should probably give it a few more minutes to become fully expert in the philosophy]. Maximum attachment and total harmony are the aims. Of course attachment to false philosophy leads to horrific suffering [such as the angry desire for a 1000 Year Third Reich - to apply Godwin's Law] so there's no latitude for error.
Even attaching to apparently known knowns can be fraught. Newton had it sorted out until Einstein showed that time, speed and gravity are slippery ideas. Then there was the question of whether God plays dice and whether Schroedinger is dead or alive [detectable only if he opens the box to see if we are alive - thinking out of the box so to speak]. The current attachment to carbon control is an example of false thinking, false attachment, lack of harmony, leading to great suffering, while believing totally in the philosophy.
Thanks for the pointers.
Meanwhile, let's hope for a woman POTUS. Hilary versus Sarah in a mud wrestling contest!
Cyberspace rulz.
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