Postsingular- Telepathy and Parasites

I liked the idea in Postsingular that far and close start to merge. The orchid net seemed like total connection and is like a more advanced internet. The notion of telepathy and its affect on us confuses me a bit I always wondered what life would look like in a telepathic world. Would it be a fair and unique place with people having distinct difference between them, or would the world look more top down than ever? Would people submit themselves to what is true or is such a thing like true and real nonexistent and unattainable? If it is the case that the world would look more authoritative with the smart leading the stupid with no question about the truth, does that them imply the notion of freedom being dependent upon ignorance? Is it that I must not know what is or is not good to be able to select, without conditions of malfeasance, an option that yields bad outcomes?

And what about if the world looks more distinct and people are still individuals because truth is not attainable, does that not become kind of noisy? Will we not have la Rouch people bothering us nonstop? Any old mother-shut-your-mouth coming by and bothering us when we want to tune out? And does that imply that freedom is not attainable at all? Because of the influence upon your desire to withdraw from the telepathic connection? So in either case of telepathy freedom (which is problematic on its own) is further complicated. But what we have is not so off from at least one of these scenarios. Want to live in a city enjoy your commercials, and billboards in parks.

We talked about the technological aspect of drugs and that drugs are really just technology. Maybe so, but drugs fall into many categories. It is their use that becomes the focal point in the same way other technologies are judged by. The discussion of extremely powerful technologies I think is worth more as discussed when we talk about not can we handle the technologies but who of us can we trust to handle these technologies and can we take the risks in trusting them, that will solve our technological quarrels.
The notion of parasites being things that eat next to you is I think just false. Parasites are not things that eat next to you their eating next to you is a byproduct of them taking your goods from you. A leech is a parasite and things that behave like leeches are parasites, a flesh eating virus is a parasite because it takes from you. A person can be a parasite but not if they are simply enjoying a meal next to you, they must be eating you in some tangible way (not taking your ideas but your matter your atoms). A parasite is a thing that devours the stuff that composes you, and yes parasites are bad. They are undesirable because they impose their presence without permission, should this not be the case then maybe they are desirable but the situation dictates that. A doctor may use leeches to improve blood flow and recovery, but the good in this situation results from the choice to perform the procedure. An invading army is a parasite because it is uninvited and seeks to eat your stuff, your house your land. A liver is not a parasite nor is any other organ, they do not take but rather recycle or modify food, you are not having anything taken away from you but rather rearranged in you, your organs are companions not parasites.
I think it was a good last book, it mirrored morel in some of its concepts and tied together the class in a full circle way that brought the ideas of small, of format, of code, of location, of humanness and things that are human (like thought) in a way that I think ends the purpose of the course very well.