Skyhigh 20 For the march of progress?

For the march of progress?



Let me introduce you into a different chapter, if you
are just out for the fun of it or some meaningless
exagurrated scene-talk, then better stick to a-
nother chapter, as this one here will deal with much
deeper thoughts, than just scratching on the sur-
face of all this, somehow in the same vein KF's  chap-
ter ran last time...

Progress, it's something that we surely cherish, it's
common practice, that the newer thing is automati-
cally the better one...

When watching it from a simple, scientific point of
view,us 64 users are the same nerds like people
putting a lot of work into oldtimers, our machine is
outdated by the ever so improving Computers of
today...

Generations and generations of computers will
follow, and, mabybe one day man will realise,that,
following the strict addiction to progress, he  creat-
ted a monster, that will extinct it's creator.

This may sound exagurrated, it may sound like the
plot of an old Sci-Fi movie from the 60's, but just
hold on for a second, and imagine there will be no
computer at all, what will there still be working in
today's society?

We march on, producing more and more advanced
computers, and blindly obeying the rules of the
media, not realising, that meanwhile our very own
environment, a thing that should get class-A prio-
rity, as it is vital for us, is going down...

The world inside the computer is antiseptic, there is
no dirt, there is now sweat, no tears, no blood, and
everything follows simple, arithmetic rules. Life,
however, is a lot more complicated, that's why hi-
ding in the brave new world of Zeros and Nones is
that much of a temptation, so that a lot of people
just submit to it without any further thought spent
on it...

Hey, you may say, this is my life, I am totally in-
dependent from computers, well you are not! Just
look inside your wallet and pick out your identity
card,now there we are... It's really scary, when you
walk into any office and say your name, and with a
little snap of the finger, the guy on the other side
of the table knows next to anything from your pri-
vate life...

The Internet is another example. Big hype of these
days, everybody talks about it, everybody tells you
how cool it is to surf and chat on it.  Well, maybe, but
how about safety? Every connection from your home
to the outside using digital ways is not safe from
being followed by another. What if the state smells
the coffee in there? In Germany, they are currently
discussing, wether the state should be allowed to
intercept peoples homes, if there is any vital rea-
son for it for the health of the state. Well, to in-
vent such a reason is not that much of a big task,
and, without you even having the time to reconsider
what your doing, George Orwells 1984 will be our
199?...

The tracks have already been laid. As some real
perverted and sick people use the net to spread
their illegal children-porns, the german cops  formed
a special department of legalized hackers and pro-
fessionals scanning the net. I admit,that this is Ok,
as smudge like that should never be produced and
bought, it's just another sign of our society con-
stantly slipping into a perversion and violence, but
how far is the step from this legalized hacking to
the click in your phoneline, when saying something
against the  state? By the way, I will not go into more
details of the german state here, but it's really
fascinating, that immediate response of the state is
possible here, while half a year ago, they said, that
they couldn't do anything against the german right-
ist having some kind of voicemailbox where they
spread their bombrecipes, meeting-informations and
blacklist of socalled "Zecken", leftists who get too
much political power and insight into their organisa-
tions...

Manipulating institutions, however already did find
out what is going on, warehouses start thinking
about releasing their catalogues on CD and others
advertise their products on the net.

But this manipulation is that much of a big cornuco-
pia of debate and consideration, that it may act as
an extra chapter, as sequal of this, if you want to.

How about the VIRTUAL REALITY. What a hoax! Just
think about this: everything is virtual reality! The
things your senses get and transport to your brain,
are always subjectively filtered. So there is no real
reality, as one's reality could be a totally different
one for another. Every day, every hour, every sec-
ond, we create our own little world, we think that
the other person next to us respects and likes us,
while he may consider you as a total asshole the
same second. Every vision we have gets filtered by
our mind, a beautiful girl for example can be an in-
teresting thing for one guy, while the next one con-
siders her dull... Now what's the real thing? Who is
there to define?
But back to the facts, Virtual Reality is a computer
aided creation of a not-existing or immaterialistic
world. The only restriction there is is the capacity
and the speed of the computer you attached your
suit to. This is again nothing but mere convenience,
a world we created ourselves is easily controlable,
shy from any real threats and to be switched off
whenever we are likely to. Something new? No,just
take little children and their role-play. Whenever a
child is confronted with burdens it can't bear, it will
escape into a fantasy-world and play the same sit-
uation through in it once again. That is what Virtual
Reality is about, we do escape into another world,
without our physical rules and measurements.
This gives us total satisfaction, it gives us a feel-
ing of immortality, an idea of what eternity may be
about (while eternity is an irreal term however,as
our small little mind is that limited, that it will al-
ways search for a border...)...
And where does total satisfaction inevitably lead
to? Right, addiction! Once a world free of the press-
ure we have to face constantly will be introduced
and accepted as a convenient alternative, people
will more and more loose the understanding of their
biological surroudings and restrictions...

Too exagurrated? How about maths? Can you still
multiplicate and divide with pen and paper? Now,
there it starts...

This convenience, the computers give us, even
leads some people to mingle with their emotions,
how about those internet-date-cafes  and cybersex?
The fear of failing in real life, the fear of the un-
expectable, that is what leads to that. It's oh so
easy, it's that clean and perfect within the digital
world, why change it with the bloody outside?

We will continue jumping that train of progress, we
will continue obeying the drug media, we will con-
stantly accept everything, that keeps our mind off
the vital problems around, until, one day in the fu-
ture, we will realise, that progress also means pol-
lution and our planet will clean itself from that
parasites called the homo sapiens...

Thank you for pressing the self-destruct button...

Christian Heilmann a.k.a. Cupid/Avantgarde


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