Neal Cormier's Blog: Neal Cormier's Vesper Heliotropic Blog, page 17

Decentralization of the Nation State is Actually Here

I was right.
I was right.
I was right.
I – am – going to gloat.
So here is me gloating:
I told you the Nation State didn’t have a chance. I told you we’d be a bunch of roaming nomads.
In 1997.
I was right. – Wells Fargo is about to go under, Yahoo has been hacked releasing the data of 500,000,000 – probably by a Chinese hacker with acne.
Of course. They want you to believe it was the Ruskies.
HA.
It’s 2016.
There have been 34 Terror Attacks globally, in the last year alone.
18 U.S. mass Shootings. The 3rd world is in flames.
Baltimore.
Baltimore.
Baltimore.

 

The computer quells the literate impulse of The Renaissance, forever to be replaced with non-visual-by-means of the Eye, Eternal: NOW.
The message of the cursor is NOWness.
Like the trigger of a revolver that feels so much better to squeeze… Like the screen, incomplete by the nature of the space between its pixels, bringing – ‘Participation.’ – The gun, the rifle, incomplete without its pilot.
Not the complete, book.
The pen, the pencil, its paper and margins – the permanent, such a disappointment nowadays…
The computer is ephemeral, but also conditions the boundless impulse.
Ya remember what the 19th century’s end felt like? It’s because we accepted anything was possible and the state of technology moved so quickly that we felt boundless. Like floating in space, but moving toward something …wonderful.
Massive.
The Desktop is boundless. The Desk, the page… has edges and sequence.
Not A-synchronous.
Browsers are heterogenous option systems.
The gravity defying buildings of today could never be built without computers.
Transactions are parsed into packet-data. And so our brains interpret how it processes information, as decentralized into soundbites and whole new boundaries emerge on the face of the Earth.
The Net has rendered us into Earthlings. Never Citizens. Again.
Nations cannot rule over many lives under the weight of (n)etworks.
Industrialism is officially over.
Networks?
Decentralized. Balkanized.
We are about to take the mirror of Capitalism, and shatter it into a billion pieces.
Look down at the ground, and what?


T-1000.


If we are the 5th Estate. – What it reforms into, is the Sixth.

It already happened to the Soviet Union. And we gloated over our “Victory.”
Only to learn it wasn’t the Pentagon that defeated the Ruskies, but the Fax machine.
And the cell phone’s decentralizing effects on politico-social-geographic transactions.
Now you will listen.
Now you will listen.
Now you will listen.
Colonies. Tribes.
Tri-
balism.

It is the imperial age we have rediscovered. The new Fuedalism.
1929, is 2008. Don’t let em fool ya.
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, Good Morning America, The Steelers and
…Tent Cities.
Detroit.
Can you hear those violins?
The life-boats are for women and children, only.
Whole Opera Houses, not underwater.
Not 500 protestors arrested in Times Square.
And – not – reported on any major network.
Beef. Meat. Pounding 3rd world villagers into nothing for a coffee bean.
The future of The Corporation is a contradiction in terms.
Over-proliferation is the infancy of the end of production.
We see it now as transactions reach near light speed, a culture of returning goods, and moving products faster and faster for the consumer to exchange, changes the nature of a product to a service. And so too with it, the perception of a product as an end-state. That is, that of products themselves. This is because an ‘end-state’ itself–is what a product, is.
Then, automation will not only replace workers and slaves, but their Stockholders too.
What’s a Stock Market when computers predict every little rise and fall… Of every company, even future ones?
Impossible. That’s what capitalism is, or any ‘ism’ is, in the digital era.
Machines will produce everything and be in everything. Clothes will be grown and keep growing as ongoing botany on your person.
Mass production. Nope. Mass anything is gone.
Machine-Gestalt. Machines make and repair themselves. The Aircraft take off in our sleep…
In the end, eventually…nothing will be reproduced either, but last eternity. Yielding the Static age. Where Clocks the size of Skyscrapers, chime only once in every 10,000 years.

The computer will embed itself deep into us, into our tables and chairs until they are so transparent we know; they aren’t really there at all.
And a camera, every atom, then every Quark.
Ray Kurzweil knows it. The job of sentient beings is to make the Universe itself, animate.
Are you?
Animate
?

 

There’s No Potable Water

Meanwhile the – Church – next to our apartment waters its gigantic lawn…with abandon…

The Distance of Objects

it’s not ABC

Or NBC.

it’s not your fucking sprinkles or your Cheerios

it’s not your sex doll or your wife

it’s how you’re saying it 

the means by which information 

travels 

the tool, the environment 

is the real conditioner

it’s not the government that runs things

it’s shadow

government 

that runs things

it’s not the police or your president

it’s the space between the 

pixels

not the pixels themselves

it is the space between the pixels

that provokes process

one professor told me I was looking at George Washington’s face

it was a bunch of dots on a chalkboard

but in that moment, I had been.

Provoked.

Hadn’t I?

to 

complete 

the

I

Mag

e

in this completion we are provoked to participation

and hence, violence 

shooting sprees

every six

months.

every 6 months

…

all they really want is participation 

of the Tribe

a part

of the tribe.

all of this

not in our frontal lobes 

nonetheless 

in our heads

something in our blood

space of objects

to the reptilian brain

of which 

we tend to use

a lot.

Metal!

We all make our vows. Don’t We?

Stand Like Gods.

At least there is one place left.

Police Love Killing Blacks! – Anton Sterling: Another Black Man Killed By Police!

I am really glad to see that decentralized video is now the 60’s TV bringing Vietnam to the breakfast table. Another black man dead! – Black Lives Matter. All Lives Matter. The electronic revolution will not stop until all walls are glass and we can see the truth without walls.

THIS MUST CEASE!

FUCK THIS!

Forever!

2008 and 2005 Light Years Katherine, In Her Hallway, At National Airport

1998 and 2013 Work

The unexamined life is not worth living.

The unexamined man is not worthy of life.