There is an ancient story that King Midas hunted in the forest a long time for the wise Silenus, the companion of Dionysus, without capturing him. When Silenus at last fell into his hands, the king asked what was the best and most desirable of all things for man. Fixed and immovable, the demigod said not a word; till at last, urged by the king, he gave a shrill laugh and broke out into these words: 'Oh, wretched ephemeral race, children of chance and misery, why do ye compel me to tell you what it were most expedient for you not to hear? What is best of all is beyond your reach forever: not be to born, not to be, to be nothing. But the second best for you - is to die quickly.'

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This was all written w/a pen on paper and only posted here as an afterthought. I'd have photographed/scanned it if I could

+ I promise (will try) I will never worry about the stinking internet again.

+ What is the relationship between population growth & the overall inexorable growth of the Global Economy (WHY is the relationship the way it is)?

How long has the Global Economy existed as a focal point for people/institutions/systems w/power? Because I maybe sort of would-be-capable-of-thinking that we only have a Global Economy BECAUSE it grows. i.e maybe all the economic heat that's required is between sheets in Java, Ecuador, whatever. If not a GE, then some other, less potent source. FEUDALISM!

I have missed conversation.

FAKELIST (w/R.Meltzer)

Lawns
Replays
The Mediated Now (TV news&c.)
(collective?)Memory of What Happened (maybe)
The Beatles (embraced in a clever&vital move)


+ This pen from a stationers up some metal stairs in McLeod Ganj, Himachal Pradesh. (At 24 Im feeling old-enough to judge harshly-enough, to YEARN for, REGRET or just WONDER about my "youth" as already-spent)

There is some potential every time I pick up the guitar

There is less potential every time I pick up the guitar

There is less potential every time anyone picks up the guitar

Never believed Aristotle cracked the relationship&difference between

ACTUAL & POTENTIAL

because potential can be more or less tangible, nearer or farther from you w/out being properly measurable or visible or public. Potential can be more or less plausible without being actual. And maybe more precious if not ACTUALLY more important than the actual. Loss of potential Kerouac's main theme?

BUT I love(d) filesharing, Model 500, Hackers, any glimpse of hitech utopia (and not as kitsch)

Possible liberating ways of using the internet -

1. Inattentively, in large groups, outdoors especially (drunk)

2. By powerful people to find out about stuff I've done (no power, no view to buy, just because)