Teh Internetz

A mask that obscures reality. A dependent entity animated by flesh and blood but itself an abstract shadow, a mirror, magic. It mesmerizes, enthralls, tantalizes yet fails to satisfy, always. Whatever information we could possibly desire is at our fingertips, an ever expanding archive, a marvelous tool. We are drawn in. Consumed. We generate information and IT feeds, siphoning information through incandescent tentacles linked directly to our frontal lobes. This beast manipulates our desire and in this way shapes our reality. We are truly plugged in.




We are markets to be plundered by this post modern Leviathan. This complex information system is the technological excrescence of the collective social history from which it emanates. The history of civilization, of extractive economics, of plunder, of colonialism, the myth of progress, Christian Nihilism and the dogma of "every man for himself and god against all", the Phoenician Octopus to the domineering Worm of American empire. We have crafted a system that mines resources more efficiently than we could have ever imagined; reduces components to their most base parts possible: pure information. We are the resource being mined. We have become the tools of our tools, this much is obvious. The scale of this is mind numbingly enormous. I pose this question half in jest: are we witnessing the rudiments of The Singularity?I say no but it is not an implausible question, which is an unnerving truth. Complexity increases and change is rapid; perpetual feedback systems are in effect. The limits of reality are being stretched.

A Cosmic Joke Called Life

Crawling out of the swamps of the Laguna de Santa Rosa, fazed by the sunny skies and liberal attitudes of Sebastopol California, I find myself here, stoic against the crushing tides of modernity, tasked with making sense of this disjointed reality. I am a being from another time, having traversed dimensions to be here now, with you, together, experiencing the everyday decay of the current axiom of our world. Reality is more complex than we could ever comprehend and cannot be bound by our earthly prison. Life moves beyond rationality.

It will take a melding of minds and energies to face our collective future; I will stand rooted to the land, mind of sky, hand in hand with all who will throw their lives on the line for life and all that we will never understand. Our energies cannot be confined in this panopticon but our bodies wither in chains and our souls weaken...We are faced with two paths: the path of liberation through empowerment and action or we can reside into our decay and fade into cosmic nothingness...What will you choose?