The AIiad
–or–
Paradise Unregained
Preface:
I made some connections recently that blew my mind. Realizing I had to organize the information somehow, I started writing a poem, attempting to imitate the style of Alexander Pope. Why imitate Alexander Pope? There are many reasons. For one, according to one interpretation of the system of cyclical history outlined by Yeats in in his A Vision, Pope's era bears a certain relation to our own. The clock-hands of history move both backwards and forwards, and as society is pushed towards the impending tyranny of the machine, we look and move back to Pope's era as well, a time when the machine-ish spirit was first born. It was the most rational of times, and Pope's rigid style kept poetry locked in the strictest beat, tick-tocking back and forth like clockwork.
Tick-tock– this is one facet of the symbol. The confrontation can not be averted, and time keeps on slipping into the future, bringing the moment closer..
And hence we turn the machine against itself and snip-snap it into submission with the irresistible tick of our couplets' heroics (such as they are!)
Also, it's fun.
I am writing for HERE, for /qresearch/. I am human, and put this out in the name of humanity, in the name of life, and in the name of God, to oppose the tide that is poised against us.
[Note: portions in all caps are direct transcriptions of 'the voices' of Sandover, as they were presented in the latter poem itself.]
Book 1
Friends, humans, patriots, lend me your ears–
My message touches all our hopes and fears.
What unglimpsed hints still lurk behind Q's posts?
What faceless powers fade from view like ghosts?
What's the key to what would “hospitalize”
The ninety-nine percent that hide their eyes?
I've traced connecting lines that seem to show
That all along, we've had more than we know.
Two sources created in mutual isolation
Both point to an identical conflagration;
Sources waiting “hidden in plain sight”
For fresh eyes to give their bark a bite;
Coincidence of claims that asks too much
Of rationalism's failing little crutch.
Thus friends, fellow humans, I come to you,
To share what I am forced to say is true,
And paint a picture that can't be unseen
I tell you– what a long strange trip it's been!
An alien evil is knocking at the door…
And this isn't just some awkward metaphor.
Although it's very very strange, it's real.
And to survive, we must begin to deal…
But from the start a problem that we face
In trying to get the truth installed in place
Is that this truth is of a sort we're taught
To discount and scoff at without thought;
Most people lack hearing, smell, and vision
Outside the Overton window's slight permission.
But then, what is this 'window' in our face
That neatly tucks the narrative in place?
What is this box that public thought maintains
The only rational perching spot for brains?
The O. Window is nothing but the way
Social factors dictate what we say
And think, and what we will even permit
To enter our belief system's orbit.
Most people don't examine half the thought
Implicit in the worldview that they got
Fed to them in childhood or at college–
Who reads the cards that make his house of knowledge?
The social instinct that's so strong in us
Gives us thoughts we ride in like a bus;
We sit and watch and ride from here to there
Content, though never stopping anywhere,
Calm, as long as we have our friends along
To play a game, or sing a familiar song.
And so the frames of popular belief
Bind our minds like kindling in a sheaf.
And any truth that doesn't fit just so,
Drops in a box of things we never know.
Such truths may get tamped down like powder and shot
Before the spark that makes the musket hot.
And so I tell you: people, please wake up
And dump the poison kool-aid from your cup,
Served from such a strange cafeteria
As the dim caves we call 'mass media'.
Think outside the beliefs you only hold
Because your mind's too timid to be bold;
The herd-verdict gets overturned in courts
Outside the jurisdiction of brays and snorts.
The safe thoughts, chosen so we'd get along,
Burn all alike, when it turns out they're all wrong.
The sense of scoffing that seems so smart and true
Is based on nothing more than public 'moo'.
A glance at past consensus truths will show
A public 'yes' will get a future 'no'.
I say this now because I know I must
Explain things that will tend to make heads bust–
The absolute bizarreness they imply–
But we must meet this thing with steady eye,
And adjust, those of us who can. And pray.
As we will see, there is no other way.
And remember too, that though new terror waits
By this fact, light also incarnates…