A woman throws herself off a bridge and hits her head on the concrete steps of the canal before tumbling down into the current of the river.
I wonder if she did this intentionally – it seems like she did. But... it doesn’t make any rational sense to me. Why would she wilfully throw herself down like this?
I look around me. Others have witnessed it as well.
Now, she is floating in the current, seemingly unconscious. I climb down the steps and realize that I should probably save her. Otherwise, I don’t know what will happen to her.
I push myself off the steps, into the streaming current, and swim towards her. She appears to be regaining consciousness slowly.
As I continue crawling in her direction, I begin to notice pale Siren faces - men and women – swimming next to me. They want to touch me with their icy hands, instilling me with anger and dread. I have zero interest in being touched by their frigidity. But I accept it, because I know I have to save this woman.
....
Algorithm streams
are not what they may seem.
All aboard the sinking ship
Of algorithm dreams.
....
Sirens of the Sea
When the whole entire world is speaking,
who is left listening to
the wind?
When the whole entire world is running,
who might take the time to wonder:
Where it is we’re running
to?
What it is we are running
on?
Who it is we are running
from.
And why?
Who might look up to the sky?
Who is taking vital time
to let it sink.
To settle back
into our skin.
Who is swaying
with the wind?
…
In the age of information,
drowsy streams of stimulation,
glamorous dissociation,
intoxicating…
Swim!
Or will you sink?
Blink.
Before it pulls you
In.
Like the sirens in the sea.
They’re singing songs of meta verse
f o l l o w m e
come with us, oh come dive in.
Into these waves of drunken bliss.
The abyss.
Of algorithmic
artifice.
When the whole entire world’s producing,
who is being?
Who is resting?
Who is dreaming?
Who is sensing?
Who is feeling?
Who can hear
the silence speaking?
Who is seeing.
Who is seeing.
Who is seeing
Through?
Who can see
the truth.
Tell me,
is that you?
Tell me,
Is that you.
