In Which I Am Annoyed by the New Viewer
Posted by Esteban
A new viewer. I have to admit I don’t know you anymore. Is it me? Where once I saw a person, now I just see fragments. Which makes me wonder what you see. The same Esteban Moody you saw before or just the wreckage of evolution? Eyeball-machine connected to perception-machine connected to ideology-machine all squishing away in there like clockwork? Just bouncing around like billiard balls you and me and the rest? I take a stone from the left pocket of my great-coat. I watch the evening news and it makes me angry. Someone is calling on the telephone.
This is the latest news in science. As usual, a hundred years behind. I saw a doe and her fawns still behind the trees, then they silently bounded out of sight. The point is that it
doesn’t bother me in the least. Quite frankly, it’s reassuring to see the rest of the world finally getting it. Look, that old way of thinking was just getting in the way, like you were Captain Kirk sitting on the bridge of the Enterprise in your head barking orders at Sulu to make the arm and the hand move to pick up a glass of water and telling Spock to finish up those budget reports for Wednesday? Remember how you were always tuning into the evil Kirk or fighting the you from another dimension or switching bodies with that chick? Well, it turns out that was the real you all along.
In here, we’re cool with that. Some days I have the head of a giant rabbit. I change the color of my skin. We’ve always been cool with that. The philosophy of it, the psychology, the epistemology — you know, the whole enchilada.
So why you gotta make me buy a new graphics card? Oh noes!
thanks for the link to the article on consciousness. most interesting.
hey esteban i missed you last night! i was going to head over for your set. ;(( see you on friday if not before.
I tried morphing into a cheese
enchilada, but it wasn’t sexy
enough, as the only variance
available was flour or corn,
at a time when I prefer walk-in
closets full of wheat and rye
and golden crust. I’ll try
either bagel or muffin next.
if you didn’t try it yet, clear your cache the hard way (I mean, don’t use ‘Clear Cache’ in Preferences, instead delete the cache folder)
Wow, no wonder you were annoyed at that time - I couldn’t get it then. Crazy stuff!
@chestnut: Aw, Ches, I’m sorry I missed you. The meatself has been working like a dog.
@Seraphine: anyone who comments in poetry gets a year’s free subscription to M is for Myg!
@tip: thanks for the…tip? I’ll give it a try!
@Xax: You mean that’s not your new avi?