Name: Anonymous 2010-04-23 4:39
Anything created exerts a compulsive and fascinating influence on its creator. Through a sort of feedback, technology exercises a vampiric effect, whereby its creators are enthralled into its service. Technical metaphors invade current speech, and the whole of society is engineered to encourage the total technodomination of leisure and wildness. Walking at night, one sees hard-bodied, skinny persons treading away, strapped into exercise machines in the brightly illuminated interiors of suburban gyms, their transport pods parked outside. The stars and galaxies, once visible from the dark hearts of great cities, are no longer to be seen. The effective removal of the stars from human visual experience is perhaps the cruelest and subtlest trick of the machine virus. Black exhaust spews everywhere, illuminated by lamps of metal halides and mercuric vapors. An incessant, inescapable vibration pervades everything, emanating from florescent lights, computers, leaf blowers, jet skis, refrigerators, ventilation systems, lawn mowers, industrial vacuum cleaners, traffic and manifold devices. Listen. Can you hear it now?