Friday20 Mar 04:09 PM
Souljerky Twitters While Babylon Crumbles. Both Reboot.
In 1993 my pal Kyle Silfer and I decided that printing our zine, Reign of Toads, was excessively too expensive and that we should publish on this newfangled thing called the World Wide Web. (Fifteen years later, we have esteemed acharyas like Clay Shirky [READ IT!] & the publishers of Namarupa trumpeting the same tune). We snuck into the University of New Mexico computer lab, onto a computer with the appropriate internet connection, and took the world's first web browser, Mosaic, for a spin. Herewith & hence, we decided that our last printed issue ought to spell things out loud & clear right on the cover: The Internet Sucks.
Oh boy, what an understatement! It sucks. Us. All. In. Our energy. Our jobs. Our prana. Our time. Our money. Our political and economic systems. All of this, in transition: the whole world has arrived onscreen. What do we do when we behold ourselves simultaneously connected, across the planet?
What does this all mean? Who knows for sure. My first thought is that we are embedded within this change because we are the change: as individual humans on this planet, as agents of communication, and as practitioners of yoga.
Huh? Chew that dried chunk of soul for a little while.
In the interim we at Souljerky, like our financial system, are headed to the Dark Side of the Moon for a spell. But again, just like our economy, will reboot and reincarnate in a local/nonlocal ma&pa shop kind of way.
Until then you can still hear us chirping, linking, and thinking about this stuff by following Souljerky on Twitter.
