Arrivals & Departures or: How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Internet

[Cagliostro_the_Impossible]

"Stronger, more evil, and more profound?" I asked startled. "Yes," he said once more; "stronger, more evil, and more profound; also more beautiful" - and at that the tempter god smiled with his halcyon smile as though he had just paid an enchanting compliment. Here we also see: what this divinity lacks is not only a sense of shame- and there are also other good reasons for conjecturing that in several respects all of the gods could learn from us humans. We humans are-more humane..."

Life cannot reduced to singular formula. Far too complex for human reason to fathom. The stale assumptions of the Enlightenment fall to pieces in the face of the insurmountable challenges of the 21st Century. No one can fathom a simple solution. The idiosyncratic method currently espoused by the current societal milieu consistently fails to address or adequately gauge any current challenge, be it a global pandemic to WWIII. The control points are throttled and compromised. Bickering about rearranging the napkins and drapes on a sinking ship does no one any good... For those of us who admire the work of Thomas Pynchon... I feel the theme of Arrival & Departure is an understudied avenue of research... the variegated comings and goings in his work...

"Behind you, long, night-long queues of men in uniform move away slowly, kicking AWOL bags along, mostly silent, toward exit doors painted beige, but with edges smudged browner in bell-curves of farewell by the generation of hands. Doors that only now and then open let in the cold air, take out a certain draft of men, and close again. A driver, or a clerk, stands by the door checking tickets, passes, furlough chits. One by one men step out into this perfectly black rectangle of night and disappear. Gone, the war taking them, the man behind already presenting his ticket. Outside motors are roaring: but less like transport than like some kind of stationary machine, very low earthquake frequencies coming in mixed with the cold-somehow intimating that out there your blindness, after this indoors, will be like a sudden blow..."

Everything is dead: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/08/dead-internet-theory-wrong-but-feels-true/619937/

Our elites are demented: https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2022/11/13/michael-lewis-ftx/

and we are trapped in a digital prison, think Yevgeny Zamyatin or Josh Harris: https://soundcloud.com/subliminaljihad/11-launder-my-head?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

Perhaps, a way out: https://www.otherlife.co/signs-68-urbit-apocalypse/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsM_VmN6ytk

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