[kj] Genesis Fragment

[Alex Smith]

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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>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?

>

>

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>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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