Fully-digitized earth.

[mnaz]

Is there any point to what may lie beyond a proper road, on unstaked earth, given the creep of barbed-wire, or more to the point, naked aggression of buried fiber-optic cable, which runs a trick play for the whole enchilada? Do we have an exit strategy from a fully-digitized earth? Forget gold. Is there any subtle vestige of unwired imagination left?

[judih]

i keep a supply hidden in the freezer.
if they ask, you know nothing.

[Diana Moon Glampers]

It is all going to be wireless pretty soon.

Put it all down to the progress of man.

But Africa still the dark continent as viewed from space at night.

Sanity and solitude
Darkness and mystery
Hard times for loners

Vodka morning

[mnaz]

Africa.... when will the lights come back on?


A scheduled regiment of solitude, plus reasonable daily vitamins and minerals, may become necessary. We face an unprecedented corporate blitz-- wired and rewired straight up our ass. I wish us luck.

[stilltrucking]

Adam and Eve naked in the garden, Adam had no pockets to hold his wallet but Eve made a purse out of a fig leaf. And Exxon ate from the tree of life so all corporations are now immortal.

http://www.flagrancy.net/corp.html

http://www.mcn.org/e/iii/afd/pa-resol.htm

[Arcadia]

mmm... Victor Jara sang about it some time ago and you all know the end of the story... but we are in XXI century now (wich it means nothing) and who knows!
enchilada: I eat it at a friend's house some years ago and I also helped to prepare it...the damn beans seem to never be already cooked.
saludos,

Arcadia

[Sober Duck]

The Whole Enchilada,
The big picture
Master plan
The whole ball of wax
The whole nine yards
Your cake and eat it too.

[mnaz]

Thank you stilltrucking, Diana, Arcadia and Sober Duck! The whole enchilada, indeed! (I love that)....

Sorry to subject y'all to my own personal writing workshop, but what I meant to say was something more like this:


Is there a point to setting foot on open earth, beyond a proper road, given the creep of barbed-wire, or worse, naked aggression of wired digital, which makes an end-run to lock up the whole enchilada? Have you been to earth recently, kicked up dust over buried fiber-optic tentacles that transmit every reason why you needn't bother? Do we have an exit strategy from a fully-digitized earth-- every inch of it wired, solved, mapped, programmed, watched? Could we still travel to prospect genuine mystery, on location?

[stilltrucking]

Do we have an exit strategy from a fully-digitized earth-- every inch of it wired, solved, mapped, programmed, watched? Could we still travel to prospect genuine mystery, on location?

That was beautiful, I like it all even better now.

On a personal note:
I don't think there is an exit strategy. I am not sure we need one.
We have poetry, whatever that is?

To paraphrase the great poet

"Only through time time is conquered."

Only through despair despair is conquered.

Doomsday clocks and end time rapture
Probability, and statistical realities
.

Que Sera Sera, what ever will be, will be;
The future's not ours to see
Que Sera Sera, what will be, will be

there was a cresent moon in an indigo sky tonight,

and

[mnaz]

there was a cresent moon in an indigo sky tonight,

and

and it was real, not a digital image....

Is there still mystery, or discovery, off the grid-- a chance to find yet-unexplored canyons? Or has it all been computed and mapped?....

Maps of the Nevada 'outback' get more segmented and accurate-- not exactly comforting to me.... I dare say it fuels the resurgence in books about lost mine legends and such that I've seen when I pass through those towns.... We need those legends.... we need places left alone by the wired grid....

[mtmynd]

I know on one place left... but I ain't talkin'!

[stilltrucking]

"Dr Livingston I presume?"
Moody Blues

and it was real, not a digital image....

It is was real as this technological womb we are born into.

I know on one place left... but I ain't talkin'!

I know it when I see it, but I can't talk about it either.

[gypsyjoker]

I thought of this post of yours when I read the following. But you know how scrambled my thoughts are these days. Probably no relevance but I thought you might be interested in seeing it.

Cut and Paste begins here.


The Digital Divide in the Gobi Desert:

Introduction
This paper explores how the people in rural Mongolia and modern information technology influence each other. The Internet reached the Gobi desert in 1999, mostly in the form of Community Information Centers or Internet cafes.


Umnugovi province in the Gobi desert

“The romance of the desert will be destroyed. Tourists will
sit in heated cars, eating the food of Europe, reading weekold
newspapers, and comprehending not at all the glorious
history, the tragedy and the romance of the Gobi trails.”
Roy Chapman Andrews. (Mayhew, 2001, p.286)


http://satjournal.tcom.ohiou.edu/pdf/is ... hbuyan.pdf

[mnaz]

1999 was a darker and busier year than normal for the Gobi Desert. God how I might be tempted to oppose the darker and busier wiring of this earth....

[~K]

There was a
many flavored pause
that seemed to want for
exploitation
another glance
confirmed
the accidental pardon.