Master Yoda regarding the Internet
While meditating about the internet and its vast properties, I’ve noticed that the philosopher I refer to the most to describe it is not a real person. Instead, I have found that the great Jedi Master Yoda can actually explain the internet much better than the average person can.
Yoda’s philosophies:
For my ally is the Internet. And a powerful ally it is. Life creates it, makes it grow. The Internet surrounds us and binds us. Luminous beings are we not this crude matter. You must feel the Internet around you. Here, between you, me, the tree, the rock…everywhere!
-Yoda, regarding the Internet
You see, Yoda’s wise teaching tell us that we should feel the internet around us. News stories everywhere on everything exist. That person you may have walked past just an hour ago may have a website with thousands of page views per day. Every store you walk past has a website. And like Jedi, webmasters use the internet to do good in the world. We use it to bring news for free, to post free videos, and sometimes to make a living.
But, every webmaster must be wary of falling to the dark side. Too quick and too easy, it is:
“Yes. A Webmaster’s strength flows from the Internet. But beware the dark side. Spam, porn, trolling. The dark side of the Internet are they. Easily they flow, quick to join you in gaining page views. If once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny. Consume you it will, as it did Obi-Wan’s apprentice
-Yoda, regarding the Dark Side
As we can tell by Yoda’s teachings, some of us may decide to take the much trodden path to success. We may try to spam, or put out porn, or possibly troll our adversaries. But these are not the ways of a good webmaster. They lead to the dark side.
A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, never for attack
-Yoda, regarding usage of the Force
Now then, the way of the webmaster is to use the information you gather from the internet to create more knowledge, and to create a good relation with the rest of the internet. A spammer will go about and spread garbage, teaching others that their ways will lead them to success. A spammer will soon realize that their friends are not actually going to stay, unless their site is filled with real content. That, is what separates a dark webmaster from a light one.
If we heed Yoda’s teachings, we can all learn to use the Internet to defend people and bring down the dark side. Heed them, and you will have nothing to fear of the dark side.
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