Aontacht - Volume 7 Issue 3

How to Defend The InnerPlanes of the Mind From the Ravages of Time andthe Digital Age to Attain Immortality.One of the greatest challenges that humanity faces is how are we to beunderstood and remembered by others? We sought to overcome thechallenge of translating the darkness behind the eyes (the inner planewhere the little voice is) in the complexity of reality with langue. Forcountless generations we have improved upon this feat of extelligence(cultural capital in external media) by encoding langue into a writtenform that attempts to exist beyond our fragile frames. Collectively wemay refer to this encoding as 'books'.A book may sit for decades on a shelf or in a box, forgotten to all untilsome curious intelligence (the sum total of the inner plane of the mind)seeks to process the vastness of extelligence encoded within its cunningdesign. It is only then that another's mind becomes known. UmbertoEco, the world famous semiotician who authoredonce remarked that books are "a living thing, a receptacle of powers notto be ruled by a human mind, a treasure of secrets emanated by manyminds, surviving the death of those who had produced them or had beentheir conveyors.” Even now, dear reader, my mind seeks to enter yoursthrough my words, an act of magic one might say. There is neither goodnor evil in this act, even if the intention is to write terrible things. Evilgoes where evil is welcomed, and it is this one writer's hope that thesewords provide some small shield to defend against it.But a shield is not enough for the coming war and we must rely on theold adage about pens and