Where is Now and When is There?
Before this century, the greatest spoil of war
was history-- power over its edits, its framing,
its point of view. History now becomes
so ductile it devolves to memes and marketing,
to ads and press releases. Dissembling, as before,
is everything, but faster, cheaper, easier today.
The floor dissolves beneath us, pierced by lasered
glare of countless eye-beams. Truth, like
velocity, is always relative,
only understood in relation to defined
but always arbitrary points in time and space.
We stand now where we choose, in this perpetual war.
was history-- power over its edits, its framing,
its point of view. History now becomes
so ductile it devolves to memes and marketing,
to ads and press releases. Dissembling, as before,
is everything, but faster, cheaper, easier today.
The floor dissolves beneath us, pierced by lasered
glare of countless eye-beams. Truth, like
velocity, is always relative,
only understood in relation to defined
but always arbitrary points in time and space.
We stand now where we choose, in this perpetual war.
Perpetual war. True. *
"Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century". - Marshall McLuhan
At least most of what we keep now is digital and it will be harder to read than ocre.
Lxx
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" Truth, like
velocity, is always relative" *
Faster, cheaper lies. Sobering thought.'The floor dissolves', yes, it does.
Nicely put, Gary. And very true. *
Some hard truths well written.
Sharp.
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