5.13.2009

absolute zero

24 is a week away...

wednesdays...the day where I have an opportunity to reflect on the week from right in the thick of it...

in this day and age, is anything a flowing path anymore? it seems that everything is caught up in overly long diversions, meaningless switchbacks, and stagnant pools on the side [it's anti-erosion]. communication across distances unthinkable only decades ago has rendered our attention span utterly useless...flood in china, flu in mexico, war in afghanistan, texts to friends, emails to work...to get to where you should be requires more focus than I am capable of. distractions abound...oh, the death of god is old news, this is the end of determination, the end of focus, and the end of concentration! no longer can we move through life unaware...like a begging puppy in the rain, we must donate some of our attention to finding the answer to our most mundane questions - because we can. who is the new idol? whos winning the game? how goes the market? there are answers and they are now available in seconds...taking us away from what matters most. is there a problem of knowing too much? of course there lies no fault in knowledge...but to lose ourselves trying to answer questions with facts forgotten by sundown only serves to push us away from that which really matters. the human spirit is dim today and becomes ever more so, as the creators [the apollonian man at his finest] are praised to keep men in the fog of oversaturation. and we are happy.

the dark box man has found himself in is a construction from the inside, hostages to our own invention as the lid descends. every day the machines on which we are so dependent take precious minutes from our potential. the tipping point of technology has come and gone. while the divide between the contractors and the herd grows ever more. and we are content.

is this what the molecule feels as absolute zero approaches?