Sunday, January 30, 2011

True forms

From an evolutionary standpoint, I guess it only makes sense. The fossil record proves it. We're only vectors for all the permutations of DNA, though given through to different paths, and to accomplish different roles.

From the judgment engine of the human mind to the bio-mechanical perfection of arthropods, I'm seeing greater and greater levels of connection. Revulsion towards insects gives way to a kind of deeper fascination. Carapace joints and compound eyes - evolutionary designs that we're always and already emulating in almost every way. Unsatisfied with our skins and our eyes, we're always wrapping ourselves up in the trappings of other things. Even our faces are cowled - subsumed even - within the falsity of something else. We cannot be ourselves, or even just be. We cannot think or speak without it falling to our purpose. Everything must be judged worth or unworthy. Desirable or undesirable. This is the evolutionary prerogative. Keep what we may, and discard the rest.

So what is a man's true form then? Soft skin clad in metal carapace, teeth of apatite and aragonite. Or perhaps it's something much more sublime, much more lucid. Perhaps the true form of man is his disappointment. His desire to be something more than he is.

Perhaps the hatred of insects isn't revulsion from their shape so much as it is jealousy.
It would be only natural.

2 comments:

Stephanie said...

Consider this "liked."

Daniel said...

There was no email address so I'm posting this as a comment. Please remove after reading so as not to distract from your page.

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Geoff

Hi

This is a selective invite to a new forum. By 'selective' it means that those whom I have sent this invitation to is because I found something interesting with their writing and fields of interest on their website, blog, or from somewhere else and sometimes it was just the feeling I got between the lines that I thought they might be interested in this type of forum.

It's called, Nowhere Forum and whenever convenient please visit to have a look and read the introduction, "Welcome to Nowhere Forum" in the 'Center' section to get an idea of the intent for it. It has been been online for over three months now and has 32 participants thus far. There's no rush to fill it up with names or postings, the premise is somewhat different than other forums and the reasons for that are also noted in the intro.

Though this invitation can be regarded as a solicitation for registrants, my personal attitude is more that I'm letting some individuals know of a place on the map and they can decide for themselves if it suits their itineraries. :)

Thank You and Best Wishes

Daniel

http://sitesetis.com/nowhereforum