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If the \e{mythology} of the past is \e{ever-present}, at least in the \e{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 \dq{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 \e{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\ld\ leaving the universe outside quite the way it was for billions of years.
\e{It is the logic of this mode of thinking that produces these weird 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 \e{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.
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