Re:The Internet Is Made of Demons
by noduerme on Friday April 22, 2022 @12:28AM
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The observation was made about TV, too. Profoundly. It's even more true about the internet.
And in the naked light I saw
ten thousand people maybe more
people talking without speaking
people hearing without listening
people writing songs that voices never share / no one dared
disturb the sound of silence
[...]
and the people bowed and prayed
to the neon god they'd made
and the sign flashed its warning
in the words that it was forming
and the sign said the words of the prophets are written on the subway walls, and the tenement halls...
[edit] I hadn't read this whole thing yet. I really wish I had more than my one vote to give it. For all the allegorical talk about demons, this is a fantastically well-articulated take that contains at least a few new ideas. Sometimes it is useful to externalize our own worst impulses into the supernatural, as a way of considering them objectively. That's what Greek mythology was all about. What's a bit novel here is that we might be just beginning to approach this dangerous technology in a moral way, starting with folk stories about demons if we have to.
And in the naked light I saw
ten thousand people maybe more
people talking without speaking
people hearing without listening
people writing songs that voices never share / no one dared disturb the sound of silence
[...]
and the people bowed and prayed
to the neon god they'd made
and the sign flashed its warning
in the words that it was forming
and the sign said the words of the prophets are written on the subway walls, and the tenement halls...
[edit] I hadn't read this whole thing yet. I really wish I had more than my one vote to give it. For all the allegorical talk about demons, this is a fantastically well-articulated take that contains at least a few new ideas. Sometimes it is useful to externalize our own worst impulses into the supernatural, as a way of considering them objectively. That's what Greek mythology was all about. What's a bit novel here is that we might be just beginning to approach this dangerous technology in a moral way, starting with folk stories about demons if we have to.