Monday, February 6, 2012

Debating Poetry While Drifting In The Atmosphere

I once read a science fiction story about a planet where all the creatures had involved to such an elevated ethereal state that they floated around in the atmosphere like kites and how did they spend their time? They debated poetry.

Well I thought about that at the time and it seemed pretty unlikely but I had never heard of Internet either in those days. Just the other day I was reading about a site Tumblr which is supposed to be fantastically successful with millions or billions or trillions of users who dutifully post their messages, stories, art work, poetry, photographs, and videos. The site has become so popular apparently that now there is even a newspaper that covers what people post on the site.

Then just the other day I saw an article online about the newspaper that covers of the posts of a artwork. I'm thinking my this process is really getting about two or 3 degrees from any connection to the real world, whereupon that science fiction story I'd read all these many years ago came popping into my mind.

What we got here is people posting stuff in the ether and then other people writing about it in a paper dedicated to the site and then still other people writing about what people wrote about the blog site in the first place. I mean this is really getting carried to a ridiculous level of abstraction.