INNERNAULTS

INNERNAUTS
"Grant me chastity and continence, but not yet" (da mihi castitatem et continentiam, sed noli modo)-AUGUSTINE

-As was stressed earlier, although modes of deployment of the body have to be developed from a diversity of lifestyle options, deciding between alternatives is not itself an option but an inherent element of the construction of self-identity. Life planning in respect of the body is hence not necessarily narcissistic, but a normal part of post-traditional social environments. -ANTHONY GIDDENS


The telemodern. The long tail. The mashup. Why would or should they think of their existence as components to a better life dealing with the debris of a society that had seemed orderly and, in many aspects from what they saw and in the sense of entitlements in their weak memories, materially wealthy? The telemodern writes itself. Of course it is concerned with a type of ‘personal ecology’ when it assumes that life is a gift but we are born into a type of material if not spiritual entropy. We look at others and assume that, of course, they might have an inner dialog and a ‘shape’ to their eons old narratives built from the mutations of the ‘innerscape’- as much as they might have developed larger body parts, hairless bodies, and the propensity for long hair on the exterior of their being.

The telemodern is a cultural mutation. It is a component layer upon a general societal crisis. It is played over the fabric degeneration into a type of violent anarchy but also it somehow has become an attempt to guess what the engineering of mutation is of the past few years…or the five thousand years you would suspected ‘the modern’ to exist. Genetic engineering over five thousand years would constitute a ‘god’…it is modern to assume…even through the logic of valid forms…that the existence of a higher form can be deduced and not felt through the logical machinery of history. If. Only if. ..that they exist in a specific place in history then a return to a type of equitable order would be possible. The mashup of the existing technologies, cultural practices, and any other consolidated elements they could build from-the cell phone and the digital camera in fact-then they could construct a fin de seicle treasure from the wreckage that seems to be civil society. Or is it that big of a wreckage? Again. To trust any endeavor worthy of precious time (made more precious by possible eternity) he and they would have to find’ bedrock’. ‘That to which nothing greater can be thought’ cannot be a tablecloth pulled off a nicely set five-course dinner and prove the absurdity of all earthly ambition. Bedrock. Even to the relationship of men and women. Bedrock. If they are cursed to counter strategize with their gender narratives then this pitched battle between the sexes will continue into the next five thousand years. Bedrock. Logic is ‘valid’ but it isn’t always applied in the correct manner. …. To the correct thing. Bedrock. Misfortune? Suffering like the Buddha and Christ? To easy: they suffer because they see this suffering as strange and unwarranted. But if they know they are in the ‘long tail’ decline of society they will cease to suffer…they would mutate with types of culture…and they would thrive as scavengers. The equity of the telemodern is the ability to keep moving.


Giddens: 1. In contrast to close personal ties in traditional contexts, the pure relationship is not anchored in external conditions of social or economic life - it is, as it were, free-floating.



the markets are unfair. The financial markets were a beehive of self-assign activity and struggle. It appeared pathetic from the outside and the inside-an absurd rigged game. Intelligence was prized but intelligence of final or even first causes was overlooked, ignored, or ridiculed. He had now made a decision to move in this fork in the road with others. The telemodern is to seek equality and a cultural and natural mutation toward that but to value the tenuous connection to ‘the noosphere’, world markets, global activities, or other conceptual equalizers. Injustice and lucklessness might happen to you but you are telematically connected areas, and beings who live in the environment of the just. For now. Move.