Don't let anything I say distract you-
Shortwave radio offers the ability to broadcast the nearly exact current soundscape of wherever you happen to be in life, in your body, on this planet, at any given time, to nearly the exact same given time anywhere else on the planet.
Signal to signal, you can send your audio reality to another conscious person elsewhere, all on the backs of radiation created in the Big Bang. Atoms travelling millenia to carry your sounds, and implant themselves in a new space. It's quite a thing, at once uniquely human and still more than, somehow more than natural but still absolutely inseparable from the pure nature of it, the pure simple truth of sonic event and the honesty of transmission.
And that is what it is, I think, transmission -- it is honest, absolutely. There is a distortion and a subjectivity within the vehicle, but the final product is I think uniquely truthful. To be transmitted to, to momentarily exist in another time, space, person, body. You are there, you are taking it in, you are briefly another reality. I think that's what good education is, that's what the root of empathy is. A transmission.
The Weheliye reading seemed to miss this aspect of technology - the inherent truthfulness of a suprahuman form created by and for humans. It shows our hand, every time. The inherent divisions in our thinking, our tribalism, our power structures and desperate love for hierarchy. But within those realities are the truths of where we're at, and moreso, the solutions.
I think we can transmit the truth to each other. It's all right there, in our hands.
Shortwave radio offers the ability to broadcast the nearly exact current soundscape of wherever you happen to be in life, in your body, on this planet, at any given time, to nearly the exact same given time anywhere else on the planet.
Signal to signal, you can send your audio reality to another conscious person elsewhere, all on the backs of radiation created in the Big Bang. Atoms travelling millenia to carry your sounds, and implant themselves in a new space. It's quite a thing, at once uniquely human and still more than, somehow more than natural but still absolutely inseparable from the pure nature of it, the pure simple truth of sonic event and the honesty of transmission.
And that is what it is, I think, transmission -- it is honest, absolutely. There is a distortion and a subjectivity within the vehicle, but the final product is I think uniquely truthful. To be transmitted to, to momentarily exist in another time, space, person, body. You are there, you are taking it in, you are briefly another reality. I think that's what good education is, that's what the root of empathy is. A transmission.
The Weheliye reading seemed to miss this aspect of technology - the inherent truthfulness of a suprahuman form created by and for humans. It shows our hand, every time. The inherent divisions in our thinking, our tribalism, our power structures and desperate love for hierarchy. But within those realities are the truths of where we're at, and moreso, the solutions.
I think we can transmit the truth to each other. It's all right there, in our hands.
Comments
Post a Comment