one person's signal is another person's noise: informational thinkers are
now discovering that systems sometimes require an ingredient of noise; the
noise itself increases the clarity of the information. This holds up across
a wide variety "platforms". At one degree of involvement, the relinkages
become poetry... does the poet instinctively recognize the mind's hunger
for these reframings ? My feeling is that were don't exist in a dark ages
comparable to the end of the roman empire; this time is one of great
literalism, it is the age of formulas, it has no poetry, it is pure,
streamlined prosaic business plan for the path of least resistance... it is
clean, somewhat akin to the sterility of the compact disk sound, wholly
lacking in the low volume fractal bed background murmurs of a living
world... the dark ages were noisy as hell, and as septic... really the
opposite of our problem today... they had a howling wilderness to navigate,
we have a freshly dressed pavement of ice....
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