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“Metareality of the Virtual Mind” by Czesław Miłosz 🇵🇱🇺🇸 (30 Jun 191114 Aug 2004)
Translated from the Polish
Always moving, always changing
Electronic cars on the information highway.
Ideas without thought, speech without meaning
Words that aren’t words, yet are understood.
People, places, things, plans and ambitions
Everywhere but nowhere
The stuff that dreams are made of.
Raw emotion, ebbing and flowing, coming and going
Pixellated passion
Subliminal seduction.
Violence spreading, pure rage emerging
A day in the life of a virtual warfighter.
People who aren’t, identity shifts
Phantoms dancing on the silver screen.
People talking, nobody listening
Crackpots preaching to the imaginary masses.
Society shaping, culture emerging
Numbers instead of names
Ports without rivers
Pages without books
Servers bearing digital sustinance
Men become Gods of the Wired.
Always connected, never away
The ultimate addiction
The power of Information.
Proposals and porgress
Arguments and arrangements
Conversations spreading at the speed of creation.
Personalities and mentalities
Reason and religion
the hard-wired mind needs to upgrade.
In the age of information
On the streets paved in silicon
The virtual has become the second reality.