[kj] Genesis Fragment

[Jerry Butson]

Don't listen to him Alex, he's only a master of evil!

On 16/05/07, Alex Smith <vassifer at earthlink.net> wrote:

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>

> Fascinating stuff, Darth -- thanks for posting this.

>

> Who's gotten ahold of the new TG, anyway?? And how is it??

>

> Alex in NYC

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> -----Original Message-----

> >From: "Darth E. Vader" <crackedmachine at yahoo.co.uk>

> >Sent: May 16, 2007 9:54 AM

> >To: "A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)" <

> gathering at misera.net>

> >Subject: [kj] Genesis Fragment

> >

> >Flux: Talking of quantum physics, have you heard about

> >this Large Hadron Collider that is supposed to be

> >activated in November on the French / Swiss border? It

> >seems these scientists want to make black holes and

> >they don't really know what hell might break loose!

> >

> >GPO: That's right, in the CERN scientific centre. I

> >think that's crazy.

> >

> >Flux: It does seem like the most ridiculously reckless

> >thing the human race has yet tried to do.

> >

> >GPO: I agree. I just read a science fiction book in

> >which the whole Earth disappears because a scientist

> >creates a black hole. I don't know if it was because

> >of that Horizon program. It seems ludicrous. I don't

> >know how they could possibly be that arrogant that

> >they could think they could control something like

> >that. The very nature of it is uncontrollable. They've

> >said so themselves, so the arrogance of it is

> >frightening. The result could be that last arrogant

> >human attempt to quantify and control the physical

> >world when in fact what we should be doing is

> >integrating all aspects of life and perception, not

> >separating them out and trying to control them. We

> >should be reabsorbing some of the things we used to

> >have in terms of our relationship with nature and each

> >other and community. Science is obsessed with

> >separation and um...

> >

> >Flux: Reduction.

> >

> >GPO: Yes. And according to the Native Americans, they

> >don't have a word for death. They use the word

> >"separation" so that implies that science is killing

> >various aspects of what we think of as consensus

> >reality, just to prove their own potence. It's like

> >this urge towards being a god, you know? It's just so

> >ridiculous! Pointless. Aah, Lady Jaye just said,

> >"Science is rife with knowledge and the absence of

> >wisdom." It's fascinating. We're living in very

> >interesting times. A very volatile time!

> >

> >Flux: Things seem to be accelerating very much. Too

> >much is happening too fast for any one person to keep

> >up.

> >

> >GPO: Yes, I know. Instead of really dealing with our

> >behavioural issues and our personalities and our

> >destruction of the ecosystem and our innate greed,

> >we're just distracting ourselves with more and more

> >gadgets and things that go faster and faster and

> >faster in this denial of our own mortality. Everyone

> >wants to go the fastest in an aeroplane, or run the

> >fastest. Everything's got to be faster, faster, faster

> >- faster computers, faster phones. Its just a

> >completely empty, vacuous way of dealing with life.

> >Its bound to become a disaster. If its true that

> >things are accelerating quicker and quicker on our

> >body of knowledge and our technology is doubling

> >quicker and quicker then at some point within the next

> >ten years it'll double before it happens and that

> >could be a black hole, right?

> >

> >

> >Cracked Machine irregular cyberzine

> >http://www.webinfo.co.uk/crackedmachine

> >

> >Look at grafitti scrawled on the wall:

> >Dubya can't catch family friend Bin Liner...

> >But what the HELL?

> >They talk to God!

> >

> >

> >

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