01/29/00@2:45pm EST
Eye: Am I a visionary?
Eye: Well yeah, but that's just because I can
see the red writing on this page.
Ewe: Yes, but that too, I see as a chunk of
infinity.
Eye: Does that make me a visionary?
Ewe: That depends on whether or not one includes
objective validity in the concept of visionary.
Eye: Do I believe I'm a visionary?
Eye: Why "almost"?
Ewe: Because I'm missing the objective
counterpart.
Eye: Of course, the ability to ignore objectivity at
will
could be considered a type of vision.
Ewe: That's as may be, but am I a
visionary?
Eye: Yes, I am not one yet.
Ewe: Fine. How do I turn yet into now?
Eye: With structure.
Ewe: What is meant by 'structure'?
Eye: Well, it's this really cool store I sometimes shop
at
because Allston Beat isn't accessible.
Eye: Structure is the missing part of this
discussion.
Ewe: How can a discussion be missing
structure?
Eye: Because most of the words appear to be
empty.
Ewe: Isn't it true that the words appear empty
because
they are?
Eye: No. They appear empty because [they don't have
links
yet.] the structure that gives those words meaning hasn't been posted on the
net yet.
Ewe: Not true!! Not true!! A wise and equally
ancient
man once told me that the internet has everything.
Eye: He, of course, was right. The internet has the
ability
to access infinity.
Eye: That said that if I choose to physically display
the
structure this is lacking, then I could do so on the internet.
Eye: The trouble begins when I try to decide on how to
begin
that structure. And more importantly, if I had spent the rest of my life
adding the structure, what would it mean?
Ewe: It would mean that my vision has been
completed.
Eye: But what about others. I'm missing other
people.
Ewe: Why not pretend they exist the way I want them
to
exist. It works for everything else in my universe.
Eye: Because they are ". . . too stupid, too fucking
smart to
be."
Eye: Writing has structure.
Ewe: Only if you know how to use it.
Eye: I could use writing/coding to give structure to
this
shit.
Eye: Because I'm afraid.
Eye: I'm afraid that if I give myself to the world,
simply by
adding structure, it won't be "good enough" or "interesting enough" for the
world to take notice.
Ewe: Assume/suppose they did. How would the
structure
begin?
Eye: It would, of course, begin with this.
Ewe: But this doesn't have structure. That's what
this
discussion has supposedly been about.
Eye: Yeah, but if I make it into a matrix, it
would.
Ewe: What is a matrix? And don't tell me that it
is a
movie with Keanu Reeves.
Eye: To begin with, that word, right there, would have
a link
to another page. On that page would be a description of that word as I use it
in my universe.
Ewe: And by continually doing this, I would be able
to
add structure?
Eye: In the very least, I would be able to show you
exactly
what my universe looks like.
Ewe: Would that be the act of a
visionary?