Individual Analysis

Studying a person- future science fiction ideas- in the same way as a country, movement or ideology, society, etc might be studied, with in-depth analysis with an attempt to be objective, along with a collection of as widespread as possible information of all possible resources and no limits regarding thought of privacy, in fact there is no rationale for including these type of considerations whatsoever. In a world where the personal is easily accessible through online information and, where necessary to study an important person, even leaking or authorised access to private accounts, correspondence and tracking of movements that were made. What is there purpose of this neverending need to know all facts surrounding a situation? A belief that this will reveal truths about the world or that can be used in a way to help something (what- the improvement of humanity, people’s personal problems, commercial interests, the smooth functioning of society?) is the reason. Whether this is true or not is unimportant- at a certain point perhaps the limit of what additional knowledge could reveal is reached however, the processes and the culture which has become entrenched, the culture of knowledge, revealation, analysis, attempted objectivity combined paradoxically with open contestations of different subjective interpretations with overt ideological agendas. The subject is studied ironically or as a part of a disturbing expose on an exaggeration of one tendency/pathway currently visible and a hypothetical of how it will quite possibly progress over time

An individual, let us call her Ally. Her personality is a type to be categorised as most things in this world are categorised. The influences on her, her environment, her history, can be predicted to impact on her in heavily statistically documented ways. This could include her parents’ eating habits for example, the performance level of her school. Variables have been factored in, and as this is done, do they lose the essence of what a variable is, what the word vary might imply, the idea that they might lie outside of the ordinary in unpredictable ways? The variables have been accounted for and so, in our calculations, have been compensated for. There is an attempt to understand the relationships between the variables, in order to backchart the cause of the effect, to eliminate unfavourable risk factors and increase the average likelihood of positive outcomes, (by somebody’s standards). The variables have been compensated for, and it is important, in the future, that there not be any real variables, any unpredictable results.

At this point, is Ally understood, as a result of the transparence gained on how different influences and causes will shape her? Or does she begin to cease to exist, as the inability to tread any path other than one already predicted (if all possibilities have been accounted for by that stage) make her devoid of free will and the inability to create? Or is it that if she were to herself seek to be understood, she would tell quite a different story, and her own voice has been drowned out?