The Gardener
Santa Clara, CA 95051
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The philodendron at Moore Systems, lovingly dubbed The Plant, grew on an unofficial trellis, the top rim of half-height cubicles. On and on and never looking back, mocking confinement, laughing at digital logic. No one knew where it was going. Everywhere. Nowhere. No one listened then, either.
The internet will collapse – counting down to 0-day, 4, 3, 2, 1 . .
Facebook, Twitter, life as we know it, CNN . . . all blank. Electromagnetic pulse? Solar Flare? Can't Happen Here?
On the bright side, jobs stop drifting offshore. It's an ill disaster that blows no change.
On the twilight side, Mad Max terrorist parties, no coffee shipments. This is already off to a running start.
One thing is self-evident: Wear long robes, wear a gun, speak knowingly, I might listen. Or not.
Those Nostradamus days, cycles of Newton, Revelations, the Great Land of Nod or some such, no one knows. Or cares much, except the Fringies. Billions of cattle struck really hard on their heads, kalpas of dark matter just now tweaking scientific minds, quantum Newton, entropy Revelations, Einstein's Lotto ticket, spooky First Amendment rights at a distance. No internet, and CNN can't strike back.
And this? An untutored dissertation. It cites no polls, shuffles no statistics, makes no calculations, and lays no plans. With all that, no one really knows and it finds fellow travelers. Without desecrating anything, gender, race, religion or intuition – or in any way implying Mad Max is chomping a Big Mac – it feels like a good bowel movement. All you book reviewers, lined up with nothing better to do, can quote me. Safely. And you Fringies – Don't send money or hate mail. This is not a social movement, after all.
The world and you and me and the birds and Big Bee – oh, Poetry! The whole kit and kaboodle. Anyone might become it. If it wills, no guarantee.
Just for a tether line call in the Hindenburg to dredge up today's report from Fukushima. Again, with sirens and a tsunami warning.
A flood of information loosed ice along the North Sea trade route setting off trade disputes over rights far beyond the Amendment. Just between you & I, isn't it clear? A well honed journalistic style. Facts and figures are useful, legally.
This? It's nothing much. Nothing at all. Tree bandaged carriers, spontaneous philosophers and knife throwers, poets musicians and mechanics, well meaning relatives, and imagination . . .
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The Gardener
Santa Clara, CA 95051
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