Do you see the all seeing eye as the eye of your mind?

[Synthetic ARC]

I think it should represent the capacity that humans have to see the world with their own "eye". This eye would see things such as evil, personalities, and emotions.

So, do you see what I see?

[Lynnmarie]

No. The only one who sees all is the Lord.

[Bradley P]

The problem is that the phrase, "all seeing eye" is a fairly loaded metaphor. Different people take it differently, to say the least.

Personally, I see the metaphor applied two ways, one good, one not so good.

--There's the way life in general, as well as the internet, is becoming more hostile towards human beings and more invasive of one's person and privacy. Basically, if you're on the internet, you're being watched. If you're on Twitter or Facebook, you're an ant under the magnifying glass, and not just on the ant farm like the rest of us.

And if you dare go to an airport to catch a flight in these United States, well, you know. Everybody gets groped, manhandled if not raped in front of all and sundry.

Point is that is leading us to a Prison State: one nation as a Panopticon, or a cell where everyone sees you from Every Last Angle. And where Paranoia is public policy. This is the BAD way.

--The GOOD way?

This is more in line with what you're saying--only more so. It's not just that people are learning to see with their own minds and their own perspectives--although it's hard to hope for, hoping that people are still literate and still able (if not always willing) to think critically.

It's that people are grasping and maybe even embracing the "hivemind" concept, or the collective unconscious. We're getting it, slowly but surely, that people are some 99 percent identical, and that we really do think much more alike than we do differently. Basically, we're getting to the point that we understand the idea that some memes--ideas that stick and propogate on their own--are just a part of the species.

In the beginning we thought that about very few things--like the general human fear of snakes, which usually has to be unlearned. Now we're getting it that to some degree, religious fundies are jerkfaces no matter where you go, no matter what faith it is at face value. We're getting it that some methods of misconduct or evil are universal to the whole of humankind regardless of culture.

That's a clue we can use. Even if it isn't really mind-reading, it's a way to understand how human nature goes wrong _before_ it does, so we can do more to nip it in the bud first.

Of course, this sort of progress is VERY slow. That it happens at all lately is something of a miracle.

[FUUUUUHHHH!]

No. I see it as corruption.