Re: <nettime> made for TV, made for social media

[John Young <jya@pipeline.com>]

Felix Stalder presented a well-crafted, cogent view as have
others in this soliloquy.

A broadening of geography as well as cosmology would consider that most
of the Earth's surface is not inhabited by most densely packed,
infectuous, disputatious humans. The age of European, preceded by
Asiatic, exploration spread a particular way of living and thinking to
what it termed The New World. 

That has unique mindset has spread to most of the planet and nearby
space, lately dominated by technology, some of which is beneficial, a
good amount suicidally conceited about its supremacy with roots in the EU
fragment of the green orb. The mono language, thought, literature and
technology of this forum, say, which is quite restricted, perhaps
unavoidably, in its judgmental values of good and bad, right and wrong,
rational and irrational.

Imagine, though, another age of exploration, inhabitance, invention,
creativity and behavior altogether open-minded about a different world
view that was not uncurably diseased by EUism of faith, thought, economy,
sociality, prejudice, governance, exploitation, supremacism, enslavement,
righteousness, cruelty, misogyny, racism, Orwellianism,
constitutionalism, royalism, the full pathological spectrum of
highly-educated and fiercely enforced ignorance and conformity.

Turns out there is already a EUism-free world like that, until recently
secure from invasion by the hordes of exploration exploiters weilding
technology and apoligia to ravage and rape and slaughter and enslave.
Right, you otherworders guessed it, not outer space, not AI, not pharma,
not deep thinking, but deep undersea where dog eat dog landward
ethno-suicidism exists as inhuman variety incomprehensibly older, surely
wiser, than fragile, vulnerable, self-destructive human sapiens.

Bide time, the homicidal hairy apes are melting the ice, the seas are
invading the oh so pregnable fortresses defending homelands of ancestral
supremacy, with minuscule scouts gathering intelligence on weaknesses of
flesh and blood pods welcoming baring their innards to laughably named
Trojan Horses riding hell-bent into blood streams and lung sacs
unprotected by over-valued technology, wisdom, beliefs, lusts, universal
health, benevolent regimes housed in glorious temples of
classicism.

The multi-lingual-humnoidal internet, way-stationed here, intoxicates
into early senility with calls to keep powder dry, to not deviate from
the tried and true, to hold the forts of sacred Capitols, to expand
weaponry, to wear masks of civility. Inside the thin skins the
water-based infrastructure accepts signals from its cohorts below the
shipping lanes, flowing within water supply pipes, churning in sewage
treatment plants, swirling in rivers, lakes and reservoirs, signals to be
patient, the skins and nerves and ganglia and brain matter will soon be
ready for pick-up slurping.


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