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+If the \emph{mythology} of the past is \emph{everpresent},
+at least in the \emph{memory} (distant signals presently felt, but not in any order) then it too is
+simultaneous even though the event is long
+gone. Seen this way, event, and thus time,
+and thus life, become merely informational;
+that is to say an abstraction that can be
+handled in a non-real way with real effects.
+This is, after all, what dreams and surrealism
+are all about. A financial institution is not
+only an information-handling and communicating company these days, but a clock, an
+observatory with \enquote{eyes} that see electronic
+impulses in which all the events it scans are
+simultaneous and fused. It is a dream state.
+
+As we continue to struggle on toward
+demonstrating this unified field theory as it
+is in practice, we see we have arrived
+at a dangerous, earth-devouring system of
+thought and illusion. We take the whole
+development of modern cosmological and
+physical theory to be, at the present time, a
+function of the \emph{culture} of modern transnational capital. When a certain level of interconnectedness is reached, what will happen is that the universe's symbolic energy
+(affecting real energy systems) will move so
+fast that it will burn itself out, explode into a
+nova (a cosmological financial-informational
+bubble), collapse and compress back into a
+black hole... leaving the universe outside
+quite the way it was for billions of years.
+
+\emph{It is the logic of this mode of thinking that
+produces these wierd and surreal visions.}
+Welcome to Laputaland.
+
+In the past, magical systems held the notion that there was a link between the microcosm (what happened in people's minds)
+and the macrocosm (what happened in the
+universe). The macro affected the micro. If
+one had the magical tools, then the micro
+could affect the macro. Electrical levers were
+substituted for magical levers. But the dream
+of \emph{magical} control has never been exorcised.
+We are still caught in a quasi-metaphysical
+system; one that expends enormous resources
+and money. It is this dream of intellectual
+magic that drives the present information
+revolution: the grasp for power and control.
+The thought of a small sub-set of the world's
+population devastates the earth. Perhaps,
+after all, modern capitalism is a great factory
+for the production of angels.
+
+Illusion dominates. It doesn't matter yet
+since the information doesn't even have to
+be true.
+
+The ground is eaten out from beneath us.
+We will take Berkeley, Kant and the whole
+rout of idealists along to the stars, lured by
+worlds we have pre-populated but cannot
+reach.
+
+The dream time is upon us.