In other news: I found a blog that is stunningly bizarre. Go take a look at it. I dare you. [Update: the link is dead. The strange blog has disappeared. Which supports the spam theory, below.]
OK then. I’d like to hope that it is some kind of strange inside joke. Or the product of a random text generator of some kind, like that Kant engine I found some time back (see my blog entry from 2006.05.02). Or, at the least, I hope it is the output of some weird automated translation engine, from some profoundly syntactically un-English language.
Actually, I think it must be the output of some kind of automated, text-spewing tool: a database-driven textual abstraction engine of some kind? a spider-phisher (meaning a tool for attracting the attention of automated internet indexers, such as Google)?
But part of me enjoys imagining that there is a real, human author of the blog, who is actually sharing the poorly edited contents of his/her actual brain. I mean… what a remarkably strange brain that must be, to be inside of!
Actually, another thought occurs to me: this is an emergent symptom of a new, global, incipient cybersubconscious. Immanent (imminent?) oversoul of humankind. I’m sure some of you will be quite skeptical… but let’s think about it.
The internet today is an almost unmeasurably large text. Borges’s infinite library, maybe. But it is not just a passive text, sitting there for all of us internet-connected readers to read. It is also inhabited by a seething, swarming plethora of text-reading and text-generating machines (e.g. google-spiders and spambots, respectively). A vast ecosystem of predators and prey, living and dying, battling and fortifying, all in a text-based universe. The word made virtual flesh, but not incarnate. There be dragons.
So it is an unmeasurably large text in constant dialogue with itself – if not particularly self-aware dialogue, if not particularly meaningful dialogue, it is nevertheless a huge babbling demon. A giant idiotic infinitely schizophrenic mind. Grendel ruminates incoherently in his deep. The internet becomes humanity collectively dreaming.
