The mail system

[Freund Christophe]

On a beautiful satursday in paris, it's at least summertime 

In COL49 ,  Thomas Pynchon  describes  a  form  of  parallel  mail .  The
politically organized States have always wanted to keep the monopoly  of the
distribution of the mail. It is a source of income that it  isn't necessary to
neglect. But, more, it is without doubting the last resort which has the state
in the control of citizens.
WASTE takes birth in the tragedy. It is a problem of property :  who belongs the
state, who is the legitimate prince ? It is the theme of the depossession (in
french).
In the same way, another system of distribution of the information takes birth
in a potential tragedy : ARPANET.The objective of this system is to distribute
the information in all circumstances. If the state as a territorial entity no
longer exists, at least, it can still subsist as a net.
Note that this is not the message that has the importance but the medium himself
(cf Mc Luhan). If this medium exists, then we still exist. Again this theme of
the dispossession.
WASTE needs to exist whatever the nature of the messages that are sent, what
these messages contain has no importance. The comparison is easy to make.
Compare now the evolution of WASTE and ARPANET .
WASTE becomes gradually a public area in the same manner that ARPANET. Here
again, we can be confused by the similarity of the evolution of these two
systems.