We have become, by nature, deceitful in the interests of survival our ability to misrepresent circumstances to others as a means for promoting our own wellbeing is a fundamental part of our repertoire. Untruth is now as much a contributor to our reality as truth. But this vast inner ocean presents one salient feature with which they did not have to contend, one that fundamentally undermines our purpose: Like them, our sense of objective is also unclear, the maps woefully incomplete. As it was with the early explorers in their fragile wooden ships, navigating this uncharted territory is a dangerous unpredictable endeavor that has only just begun. The Internet is a voyage into ourselves: the seemingly limitless expanse of human possibility within us, comparable to that presented by the oceans without us six hundred years ago. This time around though – the lying is in bed with us. Our intimate feelings are once again available for all to see. We are beginning to remember what we all look like, think like, care about, yearn for, lust after, hate. It’s taken thousands of years, but now the Internet is finally bringing us all back together again and we are becoming naked once more. We went our separate, private, secretive ways – and the lying kicked in. But then the tribe got too big, the bed too small and strangers appeared. There could be no secrets, no private agendas, the survival of the tribe depended on it. We had to in those days it was in our interest and the interest of everyone around us that nothing be hidden.
Once upon a time we all slept in the same bed together, saw each other naked, knew each other’s intimate thoughts and feelings. There would indeed be disclosure, but there would also be obfuscation and concealment, a whole new order of hidden. ” wrote Peter Martyr when Columbus got back – the creation of the modern world that is, the “civilized” world that would become his Renaissance Europe. “ The disclosure has begun of what was hidden from the first creation of the world.
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