12,378. RUDIMENTS, pt. 898

RUDIMENTS, pt. 898

(straightforward)

One of my constant conflicts

has always been with Science.

Granted, there's a science to

everything  -  even the gutters

on old 14th street, by means

of a scientific method, were

designed and planned to remove

the plentiful flow of runoff

and other water, to then be

'scientifically' processed and

dumped into the Hudson River.

Anything is excusable if you

use Science as the rudder to

your explanatory ship.

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The trick of what has happened

to Science is that it has been

double-crossed by itself. It

has led prideful Humankind

right into its own perplexing

crossroads: On the one hand,

the pure utility of the improved

lives we all live; sanitary, clean,

more 'disease' free than ever

before, etc. On the other hand,

like a Pandora's Box, once they

got to a certain point, Reality

itself began falling apart in

front of them  -  in fact, they

learned there is no front, and

no back; just a vast moving

perspective seen from a point

we only think of as fixed but

which is not at all. Flux and

flex, being the new legendary

bywords of our lives. Science

has brought us to these points,

by the fine rigors of its methods,

proofs, and pursuits, but I'm

not sure that ever before has

Humankind run up against

something like this   -  which

becomes its own dissolving

thread breaking down the

Reality that we have lived

with all up to this time, and

which had given us both all

the glories and all the horrors

or our lives and histories.

Essentially, we are left busted

and adrift and that seems to be

accounting now for much of

the tawdry nervousness that

permeates our affairs and

undertakings. The 'positive'

ion of Life's basic electrical

force has becomes instead a

dark and swirling negative

cloud that now sweeps up

everything both before it and

behind it, in its own perilous

wake. Whatever will we do,

as a species, when we learn

by Science, that the past if

really yet the future as well?

If Religion has somehow

brought us to the 'end' of

religion, does Science lead

us then to the end of Science?

Or just to the end of the world

as we know it? Just another

version of the hydrogen bomb?

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If something like that  -  of

that nature  -  is not utterly

confusing than I don't know

what is. I do further believe

(won't be here to witness it out,

but, hey, they way things re

going I might), that in the

future, a hundred or so years,

we will have outgrown all

language and will need another.

A new language, something

vaster and more broad and

fluid, to take in these new

forms and ideas and concepts.

The world we create will not

stop growing  -  though we

might, for sure  -  and once it

overtakes us, the old will be

dead, words will lose their

reference and form, and an

entirely new form of entry

into communication will be

needed. Our books today will
seem as if one is reading ancient
Runes. Trying to determine  -  
looking back from that future  -  
how we lived and thought will
 be a real puzzle to them, and a
studied task. You can almost see it

now, building from the outside,

way out on the horizon  -  new

forms and new words, and a

new way of generating the

'communicate' needed. Less

visceral, more spiritual, but

not in the way we used to

know either of those terms.

Perhaps 'ethereal' and

'ephemeral' are two of the

words in current use coming

closest to it. And this will all

happen in spite of.....in spite

of, well, all else. (There will

be wars, and rumors of wars).

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'You don't make yourself

interesting through madness,

eccentricity, or anything of

the sort, but because you have

the power to cancel the world's

distraction, activity, noise, and

become fit to hear the essence

of things.'

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In 1967, where I was walking,

everything was old. All of that

'great, dynamic city' stuff was

mostly cliched by then. Everything

going on was, as I said, old. What

one did was old, old-style, the

acting and the doing was old,

old reasons and conclusions  - 

tired, shopworn, almost to

the point of going through

the motions. And that was it -

except for the mercenary aspects,

which, in NYC, were paramount.

Artists, writers, singers, doctors,

lawyers, corporations, inventors,

all and every, in it for the money.

There was a certain slick form

of 1960's derogatory outlook

that reduced everything to a

commerce, or a form of it.

Price was on everything, from

ideas to women to company to

frolic  -  people were signing

contracts, careers being made,

but everything was old. The 

world had not yet entered 

the sort of phase it's in now 

(What was hinted at with 

any of that crazy 'Age of 

Aquarius' hippie pablum

rolling out of the mouth 

of babes). All that time, at

work in the background,

was the idea that all Nature

was about to change, and

the means of that change

was to be Humankind's own

doing, in the figure of clean,

abstracted Science. Once all

the utility factors were out 

of the way. The steam engines

and cotton guns and harvesting

machines and rockets and tractors

and heart transplants, they were

all done. All that stuff ran its

own natural course, and had its

own lists of heroes, honorees,

and the great and the revered.

Then the rest came : Science

reverted forward. Huh? Yep,

that exactly what it did, using

a contradictory course to forge

its own charmed quarks and

muons of existences (apparent

existence). Once IT gets ahead

of US, we;re in trouble. Notice

the double use of IT there, for

intelligence transfer, as in AI,

which we still for now call

'Artificial Intelligence.' Once

that becomes a part of the

human reckoning, that too

will advance the falling away

of that 'old' language I mentioned.

You thought alchemy was weird?

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Science used to move matters 

along by proposing its sequences

and processes. The old 'A follows

B' routine. That's already gone.

Science now has done away

with straight lines and the so 

called 'straightforward' ways

of presenting things : Now we

know there are sidebars and

bumps, detours and ramshackle

dead ends everywhere; but we

turn them all, naturally, and of

the 'dead'ends, oftentimes we

paradoxically find something

too that takes life. We are

about to enter grand illusions

on a most grand scale. One 

hundred or so years from now,

the way we live and think right

now will seems as impossibly

quaint, curiously cute, and

tawdry as any imagining ever.

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When Science first tamed the

rails, had the tracks and the 

systems made, and trains and

depots everywhere, in each of

those places, proudly, stood a

clock tower. High up, to be

seen by all. Time was rigid, 

and time was present. Now?

You can't find a clock tower if

you try. They're just no longer

part of the premise of living. 

Straight time, it is now seen.

bends. The world is fluid.

At present, there is no present.

All things are past, and all

things are future.