From 00eacd3a5e8d8dab39e30d56a8f7c73c7cd8423f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: grr Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2024 01:09:13 -0400 Subject: break chapters out into individual files, hopefully helps editors --- ch15.tex | 63 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 63 insertions(+) create mode 100644 ch15.tex (limited to 'ch15.tex') diff --git a/ch15.tex b/ch15.tex new file mode 100644 index 0000000..57d0b80 --- /dev/null +++ b/ch15.tex @@ -0,0 +1,63 @@ +\chapter{} + +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. -- cgit v1.2.3