Where Seas and Fables Meet by B.W. Powe Page B

mad. Its vision would be called heretic and selfish and horrifying and ridiculous. Things have always been done this way, what’s the matter with you? The penguin would be exiled from the tribe (to where, exactly?).
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    I wanted something (or someone) to step in and seize these brave beings, loving stoics. Saying – look – you need an evolutionary shake-up.
    I wanted something to say, this is it.

Revision
    A cage went in search of a bird – Franz Kafka
    The cage never did find the bird. The bird was too quick, too happy. It flew high, crossing many frontiers. The cage stayed close to the ground. It searched low, and not high. The cage ended up catching only itself, and hurtling on, always empty.

Electro-dynamism
    On the new electronic world coming into contact with your imagination...
    A friend said: “I just bought a new flatscreen TV with a satellite dish. Now I get five hundred channels. And there’s still nothing on.”
    You replied: “TV, like the PC, is about an environment of moving images and data, it’s about amazement and speed. Our brains and senses are massaged by its emanations.” And you added: “Can you trust someone who doesn’t watch TV or work sometimes on a PC? Dismissing a screen is akin to an early Renaissance monk, still living in the manuscript culture of the late medieval age, dismissing the printed book, that infernal Gutenberg invention. It’s akin to preferring an illuminated manuscript, or an illuminated window, to the printed page. The printed book belonged to the emerging middle class and thus to the new citizens of a developing movement that emphasized individual consciousness. The illuminated manuscript was the privileged property of the few who could afford a library.” And you said: “The challenge of the screens is this: many worlds are coming through. There is so much coming through, in an overflow that won’t be stopped, you have to channel that surplus by watching TV from the side, or spending screen-free days, or hours (if you can). The surplus of information is the pleroma. It’s the revived and enhanced Book of Nature now in a hyper-liquid veil. It can look like the splendour, incarnating in its cascade and issue. You have to train yourself through learning and
    practice how to absorb the immanent brimming so that you aren’t perpetually bedazzled. And is there a storyline in the flow? The subplot, the coded tale, is you: the identity of the one immersed, meshing with the portals and outlets of the cosmos.”

Susceptibilities
1.
    You don’t need LSD when you have a PC.
2.
    Voyages to the interior occurring every day, every moment.
3.
    You find you have to sit at the side of your over-sized flatscreen to diminish the immersion, the hallucinatory intensity, the unmapped effects, the besotting.
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    No idea of the spaces that are opening before us, around us.
    ADD is a natural reflection of the e-cosmos because the whole environment jangles, demanding every part of our attention.
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    Now we have imagination and perception at the speed of light.
    The potential of flooding or overrunning the Structure...
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    There are screens, in PCs and BlackBerrys’ and iPods and TVs and iBooks (that work by emanation), and at cinemas (that work by projection). “Light through, light on.” – Marshall McLuhan
    We are screens, too, bearing others’ projections (attention and imagination): we emanate our psyche and energy, in light vibrations.
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    People not as things or digits or items or mechanical operations or biological accidents or shadow-files or computer numbers or parts of the prescribed Structure... People as atmospheres, as trees and their reach, people as currents and reverberations, as immensities, as open doors and open windows, people as forms, as waves...

Skynet Legacy
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    PC and TV screens need people to get more TV and PC screens.
2.
    Computers are electricity’s way of making more