The avatar on this new blog is a one-wheeled motorcycle man. I wrote a post about this in my previous Nikontim blog. It is a symbol of a man. A man who has created his own universe that encompasses him, the one wheel universe.
The man has the intelligence to think up and design an intricate usable machine that can do what he wants it to do. He has the physical abilities to use raw materials to create the machine and to ride it with skill and technique.He has the emotional intelligence to ride it safely, to use his unclouded judgment to ride fast and far without putting himself in danger. He has the spiritual awareness to see the beauty in all he does and to thoroughly enjoy what he can do with his mind and body.
Following is the motorcycle man post from the old blog. It is pretty good.
I was quite struck when I first saw this photograph of a one-wheeled motorcycle; I wasn’t sure why it resonated with me so strongly.
The next couple of weeks I would see it as I had left it open on my computer. This leant me to think about it and what it may symbolize.
The Motorcycle Man would be intrinsically connected to this machine at a greater totality than any other machine. He would ride surrounded by the wheel so fully encased in it. He would ride within inches to the ground; his feeling when riding would be on of almost complete connectedness to the machine and the earth he rides on.
One symbol that it can be is the idea of a man being the centre of his universe. He sits inside it, he can move around with it. He can have many feelings while wheeling around, likely the thrill of speed, the threat of impending disaster. He can think about how it was built and how he can control it.
He may have built the motorcycle. If he had he would understand metal and mechanics, gearing and gearing ratios, gasoline properties and air mixture. He would understand rubber tires and air pressure. He may have sewn the horsehair and leather seat as well as the steering wheel cover.
You could say he as much a master of that particular universe (the one wheeled motorcycle universe) as he can possibly get. He has the necessary mental ability to think and create the machine. He has the necessary emotional skills necessary to fulfill the project and experience the making of the machine and enjoying the thrill of the ride. He has great physical ability to be able to create the machine and ride in it.
He is a very good physical sense of earth materials and what they can be used for, (physics) he has a good physical ability (biology), he has an excellent understanding of how to use his mind to create what he does, (intellectual) and a good emotional perspective to boot (social).
How would he feel if part of his experience of the Motorcycle was replaced by a virtual element? If he sat on a motorcycle and the visuals and some of the feelings were brought to him through computer renditions?
I think Mr. Motorcycle Man would feel and think that anything that was added to the equation that lessoned his full connection with the Motorcycle and his total experience of the motorcycle would be perceived as a lessor event.
I think he would doubt that his experience could be better by allowing technology to take over parts of him. I think to be as attuned to the physical creation as he is that he would have no reason to go further; as there would be nothing better to be gained. His own body and mind would be reduced by technology taking over what he has the ability to do.
Now lets say that Motorcycle Man is philosophically minded. Does he wonder how all of these things could have come together to have himself be in possession of all these skills that he has? Does he wonder if he was born with these abilities or did he learn them all as he grew up? What did his ancestors pass on to him without him realizing their power? What made him able to learn the skills necessary for him to build such a machine and be able to ride it with such wonder?
Would he think it possible that everything that went into this machine was created out of nothing? That each element grew on its own accord from some arbitrary, coincidental nature. This would include all the substances of the earth that went into making the motorcycle, all the biological, emotional, social and intellectual skills Mr. Motorcycle Man possesses?
Would he think that he and the one-wheel motorcycle and the earth it rides on is in itself a complete universe?
Could he imagine the earth and the air and the minerals and the biological body and the intellectual mind could be created out of nothing? I guess he could but it is difficult to imagine that he would see things so simply.
He would almost surely think and sense that there is something larger than his own mind that enabled this machine to be built? He would see the meaning of life to be something much more intricate and subtle and grand than just his own creation.
In Postmodernity, which is being consumed on the ashes of Modernity, the object of man’s main robbery is a dignified death. Having eviscerated humanity, the modern and postmodern have surprisingly robbed it of the most important thing—the very Meaning of Life.
Levan Vasadze from https://www.thepostil.com/the-war-of-the-russians-a-view-from-the-sidelines/
Motorcycle photograph from https://www.healthbuzzline.com/30-cool-historic-photos-you-have-never-seen-before/?cf_sid=17&ck=5b5f264ae581fa53152731d735e512fc
I think his hat might've catch'ed on fire, I can see why this design did not make the finals. However, knowledge progresses at the pace it does, and this pace is glacial. indeed.