It is a form of insanity
Induced by intermittent connection
To the web.
You are on
Then off
Then remain off for a variable
time.
Then,
Episodically
back on.
On and off.
Thrown
Randomly.
It is the basis of madness
Schism in the personality
As Laing
might have described.
I love you today
And tomorrow
But
Who knows what will follow;
Anything –
Anger,
Violence,
Negation?
And, in association with this
Episodic disconnection
Is the invisible
Pattern;
What is worse?
Randomness –
True unpredictability, the kind that gives you four sixes on the roll of a dice or
Controlled variation
Like the penny-push machines down the pier?
With the former there is no one to blame,
You can’t claim
Someone is benefiting from your failure,
The second,
You can only blame circumstance
And,
As that is without
Bias,
Shape or form,
The energy
Bounces back on yourself.
It becomes self-defeating.
I return to the sense of a belief in nothing being the same as a belief in anything.
We require a structure; a system to facilitate our understanding of the world – alone in the universe is scary; take the memories and imaginings, diminish them
And what do you have?
The gap between being and inexistence narrows,
Being
Extinguishes,
Gone.
For Smizz – promise to reply to your very long mail!
Glorious views of the island.
So true that the gap between being and inexistence narrows, even with WiFi.
A needful interaction and communication via the screens becomes an integral part of the day’s structure.
There was a quirky , brief, touching radio 4 programme at 1.45pm on 31st July when Adrian (son) had a ‘conversation’ with R. D. .
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