I once asked Skip Lazell whether a man of his stature was eager to publish his work on the internet. This was long ago, when the internet seemed grand in a neo-noble way. Without having to think about it, Skip said to me, “You mean the Great Misinformation Super-Sewer?”. A short discourse followed, but the point was made in his creative mangle of the first buzzword moniker for the web. Humans are stupid, greedy, and ill-suited for meaningful control of anything of importance.
Yet here I am today, putting finger to keypad causing these words to leak into the system. To what end? Indeed. It is about weaving you see. Weaving causes disparate elements to become intertwined in a mutually supportive structure. By so doing they each become more likely to survive integrated into the whole rather than swimming around all by themselves.
As human evolution surges past the physical limitations of natural selection, the world wide web provides an ideal breeding ground for our memes. The Great Misinformation Super-Sewer may in fact prove to be the Great Primordial Ooze of the next phase of evolutionary propulsion. A great seething mass of ideas that will congeal into a self-sustaining entity of lasting presence.
Meme is the buzzword of tomorrow. We’ll all want to be recognized as the source of some great idea that will one day be looked upon as fundamental to this future entity as say, the gene that engenders a human being with blond hair or good teeth. The folly will be the ignorance of the need to develop a symbiosis of all our memes in a mutually supporting structure. Make no mistake, humans cannot do it. We are simply the progenitors of a conscious being that one day will rise to prominence by synthesizing disparate elements into the basket of it’s own existence.
Well, there’s my meme for the morning. We’re all just pooping into the stew, and Lord help the poor sap what’s got to make sense of this miasma.
