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6. WORLDMIND
Love the world or the mind, love them less.
The cycle seems directed from a pinprick human gaze through human
thickness:
and there might be such a thing, a guiding whole. A sad, lonely monad. Mad
god.
Consider the flotilla: 29,000 rubber duckies circumnavigating the globe,
dropped from some ship. (Flotsam travels fast due to wind motivation.)
Also 30,000 Nike shoes, 34,000 hockey gloves, 5 million Lego pieces,
a number of onions.
Consider also movie footage: of neurons in a fetus, distributed
throughout the nascent body, migrating slowly until they gather
tribally in the right part of the brain, then reaching out to form synapses.
Four of ten die between the ages of three and five. Those that survive
are well connected through dumb repetition.
What will happen when the ducks find their shoes and gloves? When the
onions
house themselves in bright plastic? When we find the right one, or ones,
or cause them to be, or not to be? If not the world as it is, are we to love
the world as it must be? Could be? What modal snags our allegiance?
And while we dither, the journey goes on, under Arctic moons, through
square
hectares of lightning. Mad shamanic grins, bleached skins—
there’s a wave, there’s a turn ahead—
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