The news is really too much. The latest Trumpism is this so-called Board of Peace, which if I understand it correctly, is a collection of countries and corporations who’ve bought in to the Gaza rebuild. I write cyberpunk. I didn’t think I would ever live it. Yet, that is where it feels like we are in this sprawling reality in which, on the one hand, we’ve reached a point in our technological growth where Solar Sails are actually a thing and planetside we are falling apart in real time. I am starting to think that the universe, as it were, is one giant organism and humans are the cancerous cells that have figured out how to replicate and push themselves towards other cells.
There’s some small logic to this theory when you consider the baseline of protons, neutrons, and quarks, and the even smaller electrons, which make up the building blocks of mass. Of course, theoretically, our entire galaxy could exist within an electron. Our Universe could. The entire thing could be a recursive loop…
Writer’s have tried to capture this concept before, most notably (to me) Stephen King’s Good Luck, Chuck. In which he argues that we “contain multitudes”. I don’t suspect we will ever know the truth of this in my lifetime, or if death will provide any larger answers. I strongly suspect not. Death to me feels like an off state or, as Charles Stross put it, a Halting State, in which all action and memory ceases… like the end of a tape or a record. Much like that concept, the record remains, giving me the belief that life, as it were, always exists and we live the timeline we are in as a solid structure–we are the recording.
I also believe in the concept of a multiverse in which there are many versions of our record, though I don’t know or am not sure if I even believe in the concept of crossover between such things… This got really philosophical fast. To think it started in Davos with now President Trump being a dumbass as usual. At least he’s triggering introspection and philosophy in my soul as opposed to anger. I cannot get mad at the doddering old fool anymore. He’s being exactly who I know and expect him to be. It is the people around him–the sycophants and those draped in greed who I suspect are the real problem, because they ought to know better. Yet they choose not to.
Some Thoughts:
- Bonkers news post of the day: Former DEA agent sentenced to 5 years in prison for using badge to protect drug trafficking friends