RE: ::scr Re: doesn't have the morlocks

[jo walsh <jo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Like I said, Eloi and Morlock was a terrible analogy

well, yes, it is all bollocks isn't it. 
the 'creative'/'rational' dichotomy that infects our industry and our
society is pointless if not counterproductive. i don't believe in any
innate tendency or cultural force that can't be overridden, or any
special ability that can't be emulated by enthusiasm.   

> Real-world Morlocks see their lives as the cave in which they have to 
work
> like slaves, never really achieving any ultimate goal because they don't
> know what it is.  They just dig bigger and bigger holes.
> But everyone has their inner Elois, some of us feel too trapped in the
> Morlock's cave to explore it.

i have a machine_head song in my mp3s

"you work to get a job
and then you work to keep it
then you forget how to not work
and soon you only hang
with those with the same affliction"

the cave is an enormous affliction, shelter and subsistence catapulted
into infotainment and status. a collective hysteria. along those lines
though we are all morlocks... and are eloi mere animals?      

> > Some people just seem to have a knack of creating 
> > something beautiful - whether that's how they arrange
> 
> Come on Simon, you've read "Zen and...", Persig may've 
> been spouting seven shades of shit through some of the
> book but he got the motorcycle maintainance bit right.

that's so not shit. he creates an incredible image of something lost and
something real with a massive potency. his Quality aligns with christopher
alexander's quality without a name, extrudes through theological notions
of haeccitas and quidditas. fuck the motorcycles.

earle and i were chatting yesterday about how terribly important it should
be for programmers and designers to understand and practise each others
disciplines, for us all to be or stay more interdisciplinary and not be
drawn into forced-labour specialisation. aesthetics, the importance of a
subtle, barely or rarely appreciable aesthetics in everything we do; code, 
sculpture, chip design, cookery, tig welding.

isnt the ideal for our whole industry to be redundant, almost our
whole work to be automated, leaving us free to do more human or animal
things?

z