Sound quality aside, Herzog, as always is amazingly engaging and honest. Come on young people, let's see and hear this interview in a way that Werner would approve of. Salt and Fire is an outstanding movie.
The really crazy thing about the Internet is that it's not necessarily an overdependence, it's a new stage of evolution. I'm in line with the "homo techno" hypothesis. Except I believe it goes back way farther than the advent of phones etc. I look at human society, especially urban society, as a living organism, like the cells that make up a living organism. The special thing about human beings is that we evolved to be so helpless physically because we were able to use tools. We don't need claws for example because we are able to use knives. Knives are like removable claws. There is a good reason why we call guns " fire *arms* " -- the weapon or the tool becomes an extension of your physical being. Same reason humans wear clothes - removable fur. This has been the case for all of human history, but we evolved really when we invented machines. The engine of a car is like the mitochondria of a cell -- "the powerhouse of the cell!" And thus the human being, the driver, becomes a removable nucleus of a greater synthetic or mechanical organism, which we think of as an automobile. In the same way, human beings living in an apartment building or working in an office building are like many smaller components within a larger organism, with the building as the outer structure of the cell. The modern city already greatly increased this interconnectedness. Plumbing lines and electrical grids which tie an entire city together. The advent of the Internet vastly accelerated this process. The human brain is a flesh computer - your brain runs on electrical impulses. Now the powerlines which criss cross the nation are like the veigns of a gigantic being. The phone becomes an electro chemical extension of your brain. Thus, by linking the whole world together through the internet, we have essentially transformed the entire planet earth into a giant brain. If there are aliens out there, it could be that they will soon reveal themselves. It's possible that this leap in evolution, transforming the planet into an electrically connected thought machine, maybe this is exactly the kind of development advanced species have been waiting to see before making contact. Although it's just as likely that the aliens in the news rn are simply another distraction to keep the populace away from thinking about the things that really matter. More likely, the unexplained phenomena are a natural extension (or the same thing in a different form) of the Unknown which has always mystified mankind - spirits, gods, aliens - the Infinite which we cannot grasp but has always been there. But aliens or not, the broader hypothesis still stands. This of course is only a theory and it's ill placed here on RUclips. The weight of such brilliance is heavy to bear.
I love the fact that while Werner is talking about Bavaria, Germany and so on, you can hear French speech in the background
tapping out at :49 seconds. "Werner Herzog speaks over servers putting dishes away." That's what this should be called.
Sound quality aside, Herzog, as always is amazingly engaging and honest. Come on young people, let's see and hear this interview in a way that Werner would approve of. Salt and Fire is an outstanding movie.
I don't know if Herzog is ever totally honest
I'm considering registering for his film making online class in June
The really crazy thing about the Internet is that it's not necessarily an overdependence, it's a new stage of evolution.
I'm in line with the "homo techno" hypothesis. Except I believe it goes back way farther than the advent of phones etc.
I look at human society, especially urban society, as a living organism, like the cells that make up a living organism. The special thing about human beings is that we evolved to be so helpless physically because we were able to use tools. We don't need claws for example because we are able to use knives. Knives are like removable claws. There is a good reason why we call guns " fire *arms* " -- the weapon or the tool becomes an extension of your physical being. Same reason humans wear clothes - removable fur.
This has been the case for all of human history, but we evolved really when we invented machines. The engine of a car is like the mitochondria of a cell -- "the powerhouse of the cell!" And thus the human being, the driver, becomes a removable nucleus of a greater synthetic or mechanical organism, which we think of as an automobile.
In the same way, human beings living in an apartment building or working in an office building are like many smaller components within a larger organism, with the building as the outer structure of the cell.
The modern city already greatly increased this interconnectedness. Plumbing lines and electrical grids which tie an entire city together.
The advent of the Internet vastly accelerated this process. The human brain is a flesh computer - your brain runs on electrical impulses. Now the powerlines which criss cross the nation are like the veigns of a gigantic being. The phone becomes an electro chemical extension of your brain. Thus, by linking the whole world together through the internet, we have essentially transformed the entire planet earth into a giant brain.
If there are aliens out there, it could be that they will soon reveal themselves. It's possible that this leap in evolution, transforming the planet into an electrically connected thought machine, maybe this is exactly the kind of development advanced species have been waiting to see before making contact.
Although it's just as likely that the aliens in the news rn are simply another distraction to keep the populace away from thinking about the things that really matter. More likely, the unexplained phenomena are a natural extension (or the same thing in a different form) of the Unknown which has always mystified mankind - spirits, gods, aliens - the Infinite which we cannot grasp but has always been there. But aliens or not, the broader hypothesis still stands.
This of course is only a theory and it's ill placed here on RUclips. The weight of such brilliance is heavy to bear.
Best case scenario
I'll never understand you, Thank You Werner.
Thanks for not asking the stock Werner Herzog questions.
"There is a culture of You Tube, for example"