REALITY WARPS AND BUCKLES
SPLINTERS INTO NEW SHAPES.
HISTORY LURCHES
INTO
FUTURE
AND ALL WHICH WAS ONCE REAL
DISSOLVES
INTO DAYDREAM
FUCK!
Rogue Predator Drone!
DUCK!
Required response to present situation not immediately evident. Random generate scenarios. Cycle through alternatives on automatic. Formulate ramification chart. Enumerate easy options.
Standardise input to determine output.
Precisely circumscribe the imaginable.
Static clouds.
Proceed to emergency exits.
Voluminous correspondence. Map entire possibility tree. Explore all territories.
Witness and document all dimensions,
mundane to the mythical.
All simultaneously true.
All existing in same
space/time co-ordinates.
Control access. Seal off entrances. Guard exits.
Total data cloud immersion. Thought becomes sensation.
Entire futures implicit in a single action. Histories splitting and branching.
Who encodes the future? Writes.
Lays down. Move and counter-move
through spiralling time?
Who is the enemy?
Involuntary spasms. Brain glitches.
Time slippages. Memory disorder.
Nerve malfunction. Synapse failure.
Improper connections. Magical thinking.
The conflation of imagination and reality into
a single
undifferentiated
sphere.
Bring all cogitations into line with the reality principle.
Downsize dreams. Scale back hope. Reassess all ambitions.
Suspend faith until further evidence is forthcoming.
Eliminate phantasy. Abolish daydream. Curtail reverie
.
(A hunted feeling. The heart, a frightened animal
hiding among the rib-branches.)
Administer the mood-regulators. Set the heart to neutral.
Balance the brain chemicals.
Narrow the emotional range to a more manageable spectrum.
Minimise disruption. Ensure thoughts and emotional responses remain positive.
Become prudent. Defer gratification.
Adjust behaviour patterns to meet societal norms and expectations.
Seek approval.
Trust in appearance and surface. Seek no hidden cause or motive,
no obscure connection, no subtext or concealed meaning.
Awake, Thoth!
O! sleepy Thoth with cobwebbed eyes,
Arise!
The Poet has returned.
Incarnated. He has remembered! He seeks out the god.
Fiery, incandescent
his voice a thunder breaking against the hills
All a rage and roaring as of a cataract.
Ready to reclaim his birthright.
Renounce the following chimeras;
epiphany, intuition, conscience.
Obey no inner dictate. Heed no inner voice.
Obey authority. Obey the laws of the land,
those written and those unwritten.
Direct energy into the approved labours and leisure activities.
Do not misdirect energy into any prohibited endeavour.
Respect the taboos.
Shun the iconoclast, the deviant and the criminal.
Decry the indulgers of strange thoughts and bizarre beliefs,
the harbourers of perverse desires, the preachers of heresy,
the demagogues and agitators.
Rewrite the program. Reroute the connections.
Override the commands. Disable all safety mechanisms.
Refine consciousness.
Maximise input channels.
Increase speed and range of data processing.
FULL INFORMATION INTAKE.
TALK TO THE BIRDS. BEFRIEND THE SUN.
Assess all possibilities, all contexts and perspectives.
All possible ramifications. DISCOUNT NOTHING.
Broaden imagination's mandate
Greatly increase the scale of its activities,
the scope of its ambitions
the strength and clarity of its vision.