the Einsteinian id

Jun 13, 2008 - 10:03 AM PST

Traveling in space
is all some of us ever wanted
to visit planets of ice
minnows in space
orbiting spiral galaxies

I just read recently that Einstein refreshed his sense of wonder by looking at the stars. this makes perfect sense to me. Perhaps modern man has no real sense of wonder, or a misplaced and perverted sense of wonder, because, concentrated in the light-haze of his nightcities, he can so rarely see the stars.

It's beautiful when there's a power outage, because suddenly, up above, there appears a veritable riot of stars, such as have never been seen above Los Angeles for a hundred years or more.

As we get smarter, and as the stars have disappeared, we are slowly getting more and more perverse. Or so it seems sometimes. I try and remember that this is just my own perspective, and it's also based upon the very media I condemn.

I would have to go out and interview the citizenry of the universe to get a true picture. Since I can't do that, all I really can do is just watch TV and try and get a sense of where the danger is coming from. So I can stay the fuck out of its way. So that I can keep myself alive.

But it's never something you can avoid, is it? It's presidential politics or an earthquake or a storm. And it comes at a juncture of history. So dig it. Embrace it.

the einsteinian Id
orbiting spiral galaxies
the collapsed center of the spiral galaxies
the einsteinan spiral id
heisenbergian in its uncertainty