There is an important
web
of world widening lines
drawing
taut together even
and odd all over lands,
coasting to seas and back
up the other end
as if
distance
had been vanquished, banished,
reduced
again
to conceptual. People
People
Strangers, even - strangers
especially largely swept up in this net
of insidious effect and unknown cause,
finding each other rude, rude - why?
Why here? They ask. Why
are people rude on this site?
People
are rude onsite, people. It's not
the "site." Get over it, calm
up, grow down and root
in the new nature, which
is - spoiler! Alert! Achtung!
- a bunch of computers strung
together by lines you can see
- material, bendy, cords essentially -
and beams and waves in the air you can't
see
The beams and waves, I mean. You
can't see
them.
The air
you can see
obviously
these days. It's blue,
and way way up there if
it's a good day
Not too much of this damn
'water vapor' pollution (so called)
which
is for reals, by the way. We invented it
by calling them
"clouds,"
and acting with alacrity,
foreseeing generations of need, want
and cowed obeisance, establishing gods
(or in one cheapskate case, a titan!) to hold
them up. It was done differently (culture),
but usually you hold the sky up by the solid blue
dome above all the water vapor pollution or 'clouds'
so-called.
That works for the day.
At night, stars do
the work, apparently. Lil' spikes
driven in bright! To fix it.
I wonder what it was like before
they thought of that. Broken,
I know, but how could they tell? In any case,
those ancient sages of loresmithery and lore-war
back in their age of the world of lorecraft,
wow.
They invented things today's scientists
feel
ashamed of.
How can you compete
with solving the problem of the sky?
Way up there before aeroplanes, with nothing
evidently holding it up, by spiking the night-time
sky with stars and hiring or press-ganging
gods (and one titan) into service all over
the world?
An idea independently arrived-at
just by looking up! These geniuses
solved so many problems science today
can't even see to study. Yet their names
- Ugh or Grunt, probably in most cases
- no loss - are in most cases lost. See,
The Storyweaver
(unlike today) was no superstar power
-mover in the industry. The show was
the show, not the showmaker.
We did that.
It was us who took care of the sky,
for all future generations to look up,
breath relieved sighs (a boon to trees
and vegetation back then - it's not talked
about, but humans have always done
their part for nature!) and rest easy.
We did that.
We were all geniuses once. So now,
this new threat, in our weakened,
weaksauce, weak-ass diminished
and intellectually-stunted, crippled
state (I do not bemoan or demean
the stunts modern intellectual cripples
accomplish - it is all the more to laud,
given their evident handicaps and
acrobatics), is even worse:
A web of human communication.
Oh yes, it's there. It is real all between
us and around. Hung and strung.
Interlicked, interpoked, interpenetrating
and (who knows?) invaginating
us all, for all I know. How
can we tell? These are deep,
deep fakes I'm hearing about,
and in that sense - when you fake it
deep enough, it gets real
I've been told. How real?
You can get stalked on it. You can
get bullied on it. It, the so-called web
("SCW" for short) is a thing in
and around and very much about
the world. You can spend time
on there. Pastime. You can work
a job on it, or via it. It's sucking
jobs upline (which is what they
call it, despite downline would
be more apropos? This SCW
is bringing us down that line!)
You can die upline.
People have, right in front
of the terminal. That is why
it's called that. They want
you, maybe
to die upline.
Worse, most life
-deranging to some,
you can "meet"
some faraway babe
and change both your lives
forever no-takebacks by wasting
years, even decades, finding one or both
of you waking up old in a different country,
still together despite the messy and horrendous,
acrimonious divorce ("we just decided heck, let's
get unmarried!" - he, "turns out we loved it better
the other way," - she
I'm not being bigoted here. Those pronouns
are accurate to specific case.
"...But we decided to keep the living-on-the
-same-landmass part," - both. "Same house
even," he piped up cheekily! "When you
behave," she cheeked, pipe-uppily)
The point is it is changing lives.
Now.
Ongoing.
It's some kind of web. Look out
I know I said "web" already, but
does that tell you how to spot it?
"Unseen web. Invisible web." Better.
Watch out! For the web is everywhere
you can't see, and
growing popular. More
and more people suck
into it all day.
Soon
it will be almost
insurmountable to stop.
And despite it is literally
and figuratively everywhere,
nobody's talking about it, and
why not? Who wants us not to know?
I just wanted to warn
you I have checked and dug deep
where hands and eyes should not
go.
No one is talking about it.
Even on any internet site
or even in-person (that's
when - never mind).
It's a big hush-up.
They don't
apparently
want you
to know,
but well
too bad
now you know