Tell Me A Story
Two stories are better than just one, right? We all love stories. Stories require imagination, the mind supplies the “sense” of living within the Reality of the story.
Story no. 1 is a story of us, we who live in the early years of the 21st century. The words are taken from Paul Virilio’s book, Improbable Architecture, published in 1984.
The solar day has been displaced by the chemical day (candles) permitting the development of numerous nocturnal activities. Which gave way to the electric day, prolonging the perception of daylight. And the recent inception of the electronic day–the extension of visibility taking over space, a teletopological continuum, erasing all geographic distances.
We are now able to see which had been previously invisible, an activity that renews the exoticism of territorial conquests of the past. We are seeing what is not really seen – becoming an activity in itself. The activity becomes endotic, renewing the very conditions of perception. (Spend much time on youtube lately?)
This is not the perfection of perspective.
It is instead the end.
Story no. 2 comes from Frank Herbert’s book, Dune.
The universe is just there; that’s the only way one can view it and remain the master of his senses. The universe neither threatens nor promises. It holds things beyond our sway: the fall of a meteor, growing old and dying. These are the realities of the universe and they must be faced regardless of how you feel about them. You cannot fend off such realities with words. They will come at you in their own wordless way and then,
— you will understand what is meant by “life and death.”
