danbroussard

How connected is the experience of blogging in cyberspace to shouting words in your head toward a void of infinite psychic landscape? I started this blog as a sort of public palette for personal brainstorms. The more I learn about the practices of spiders, bots and corporate scraping the less inclined I am to post anything of any perceptible value. The fear of the loss of my perceived intellectual property should give way to the inner open source collectivist in me who knows that I truly own nothing but my own conscious perspective and let my memes go bouncing off into Indra's echo chamber. If any of my ideas are to affect change in the world they should not be built on so quickly a cascading foundation as the quest for currency, property, or the fleeting vanities of this existence. What is the human?

From Antigone by Sophocles

Wonders are many, and none is more dreadful than man. [335] This power spans the sea, even when it surges white before the gales of the south-wind, and makes a path under swells that threaten to engulf him. Earth, too, the eldest of the gods, the immortal, the unwearied, he wears away to his own ends, turning the soil with the offspring of horses as the plows weave to and fro year after year The light-hearted tribe of birds and the clans of wild beasts and the sea-brood of the deep he snares in the meshes of his twisted nets, and he leads them captive, very-skilled man. He masters by his arts the beast who dwells in the wilds and roams the hills. He tames the shaggy-maned horse, putting the yoke upon its neck, and tames the tireless mountain bull. Speech and thought fast as the wind and the moods that give order to a city he has taught himself, and how to flee the arrows of the inhospitable frost under clear skies and the arrows of the storming rain. He has resource for everything. Lacking resource in nothing he strides towards what must come. From Death alone he shall procure no escape, but from baffling diseases he has devised flights.[365] Possessing resourceful skill, a subtlety beyond expectation he moves now to evil, now to good.