f46      the world used to be 2-dimensional… you just have to see those paintings they made before Giotto to know that

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”

That is very beautifully put together.
I think it means that the world was then only made of one word, one Verb to embody it… and it was all, complete… enough.

Yet not so long after, we felt rather dissatisfied with it… hungry for more…
One word wasn’t enough after all… we had more to say… there was more to grasp…
And so we embarked onto our journey of worlds’ creation.

It has been commonly believed that we are improving… that techniques and technologies enable us to make progress in the way we comprehend and modify the real/world…
It may be otherwise.
It could be that there is no progression in representation techniques; that we are in no way getting closer to an accurate representation of any real/world… that we are instead moving along with the shifting of the world, barely adapting to it as it changes shape and colour, as it adds or subtracts a dimension, as it solidifies or liquefies, as it dissolves and idiocifies, as it digitizes or verbalizes, …

I say, the world was black and white before Technicolor…
I say, it was in 2D before Giotto … super flat before Ptolemy… time was stable before Einstein… white light was pure before Newton… earth used to be the centre of the universe…  America is fairly new… there was no reality before reality TV shows… and the world is now made of subatomic particles… of bytes… perhaps of money…
But it all started by being one word.

So here we are… conceiving worlds after worlds… acknowledging the constant, absurd metamorphosis… making some sense for it…
We are the audience in place… secretly… unconsciously… getting ready to establish the ever-new word…

Today’s world will die with the baby boomers…..
Our loneliness is soothed by this elegant hope.