Truth and Infinity
I've redone the start of my 'Trail' project, it now has it's own website which is also the starting point. To refresh your memory read on.
I have set a 'Trail', a secret path across cyberspace. A series of web sites connected by secret links, email, hidden clues in source code etc. I am hoping, amongst other things, to explore the democratic concepts of free web space, the ease with which you can amass multiple email accounts and the accuracy of search engines. In this age when the World Wide Web is increasingly used for covert activities by terrorists and by any number of other clandestine groups, there has never been a more topical time to explore how far you can stretch such a trail and test the resourcefulness of those who try to keep up.
http://www.freewebs.com/followmytrail
“He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into the abyss, the abyss gazes into you.”
Neitzsche
“To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy is success in life.”
Walter Pater
“Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.”
Neitzsche
“Open the second shutter, so that more light can come in.”
Goethe (last words)
“Die, my dear Doctor, that’s the last thing I shall do.”
Lord Palmerston (last words)
Check out the last exhibition I was involved in here.
http://www.freewebs.com/prismartistsgroup
People today don't know what to do with their spare time. Work and passive activity has become the way to pass time and if they are too exhausted at the end of the day to do anything else, so much the better not to have to think of something.
Of course there never was a time in history that we were idle. Providing food and looking after the young was our essential work. Life always was a struggle but it was on our own terms and the rewards were real. Today our work is not altogether essential and what it costs us in effort does not match the reward. Life is still a struggle but no longer on our own terms as we become the victims of an escalating need.
The modern outsider is someone who decides they are too smart to be a victim anymore. They don't want to make anymore money for somebody else while chasing materialist dreams with only more debt to show for it, the only hope being a secure retirement if they play the game to the max. How they plan to spend this free time if they still have their health is open to question, never having known previously it is unlikely they will now be inspired.
Then what to do? Simply discover your talents and explore them, in time this will lead you on your way. The solution will be different for everybody. Do this in tandem with your working life or find a way to opt out and do it. We all have an individual impulse towards more life/happiness and more death/sadness. As a species we have chosen far too much of the latter, we need to leave that path and follow the one towards more life. Do it anyway you can, do it for your own sake.
