December 03, 2003
Unfalling Angel
This is a graphical representation of the internet courtesy of New Scientist.
We rarely borrow images to place on this blog, but this wonderful map reminded me of one of my own hyperbolic metaphors, about something I hope will happen, far in the future. It comes at the end of my piece The Burning One in the Broken World, written originally in 1997:
"Maybe we humans got smart and visionary real early, in the morning of our selves, and we created a common dream. [Harold] Bloom says, “Our dreams are less individual than we are.” So now, yes, I see it now, by the light of the Burning Man -- we shall form an Unfalling Angel from an uncanny incorporation, a constitution of souls, but without giving up our I-ness. And this Angel’s scintillating outline may be the fractally fertile Web/Net, the world’s infant Body Electric with its seething hive mind -- which, in the fullness of time, we shall awaken and use to clothe ourselves in glory as the nine billion blinding stars of the Garment of Light!"
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