COMPUTOPIA
International Studies 498 Western Utopian Literature
Written by  
Travis Winn | NIO travis@nio.com 
May 1990
Copyright 1990

	   As the chief engineer involved in the restructuring of what
was American society, I feel that it is important for there to
be a record of some of the motivations which led me, Dr. Lunus,
to mastermind the New Reality in which all Computopians exist. 
My descendants will undoubtedly be thankful for this record and
description of the founding of this ideal world.  The ideas and
motivations that generated this new society came to me from
numerous visions of the world that I encountered while locked up
in an insane asylum.
	   As a youth, I was idealistic and believed that I could
create a perfect society.  My ambition and my connections helped
me to rise to the position that I am at right now.  Let me begin
by describing the basis of society, how it evolved to come to
the place it is today, and a description of the life of a
typical man.
	    Computopians live in barren concrete rooms, but they only
know this 1.44 minutes out of the day.  All Computopians live in
a room of the exact same dimensions in buildings of the same
structure called Computopias.  There are 100 such rooms per
floor in each 10 story brick residence.  All that Computopians
have ever known, from the external perspective of the Old
Reality, has been one 100 square meter cell.  In the basement of
each building, there is a central processing unit (CPU).  There
are 1,000 such 1,000 cell Computopias.  I am in charge of the
MEGACPU, which monitors the Computopias for comparative societal
research and for any system breakdowns.  I have compumachines
and computer programs to assist me in the maintenance of the
societies.  As dismal as this may seem, Computopians are happy
and never complain.  They have no desire whatsoever to leave
their cells.  This is because they realize the joy and happiness
of the other 23 hours and 58.66 minutes of the day are better
than one could ever hope for in the Old Reality of the ancients. 
One also realizes from biology the importance of individual
cells in the structuring of a living organism of which he is a
member.
     A casual observer from, say, the 20th century might not
understand how everyone of these Computopias are different or
alive.  But that would be because he would not have ever
experienced the holograms that every one of the Computopians
living in New Reality have experienced their entire lives.  I am
getting ahead of myself with statements like that, so let me
describe how New Reality developed.
	   The beginning of the development of New Reality was around
the 20th century.  By the end of the 20th century, man had
become essentially changed from its ancestors and became
increasingly dependent upon technological goods.  All sorts of
goods were believed by men of the 20th century to be essential
to life.  One of the most important technological goods that men
came to rely on was television.
	   Televisions were the forerunner to New Reality.  People in
the U.S., first, and then around the world, became intrigued by
these boxes in which people lived lives without the boring
parts.  The people in the boxes were always beautiful and never
seemed to have anything too bad happen to them.  Americans soon
came to depend upon these boxes for entertainment, culture,
religion, and politics.  
	   By the end of the 20th century, the boxes became the
primary source of entertainment for virtually all Americans. 
They would come home and watch mindless situation comedies if
they were feeling down.  For those who thought that they wanted
to learn something about what was happening in the world, they
would watch video pictures of this event or that one.  The words
that were read to accompany these moving pictures barely
scratched the surface of what the events implied and how the
supposed news would affect people directly.  Another incredibly
important form of entertainment for many of the youths and some
of the older people was MTV.  People would spend hours watching
videos of people dancing and singing and living the high life. 
They would then go out and try to act the way their idols on
television acted, spoke, dressed, and lived.
	   The action going on within the box never seemed to end
fascinating people.  In the 1970s and 1980s, it became possible
for the first time for people to interact with the television
through video games, the first being Pong.  The video game
industry boomed and added to the addiction of the masses to
sitting in front of the television screen.
	   While the video game industry was adding to the television
addiction, new technology made it possible for the first time
for average people to put themselves within the box for their
own entertainment.  The camcorder made it possible for anyone
with $500 or access to credit (which was virtually everyone) to
record themselves, their families, or anyone they wanted, and
put them on the screen so they could enjoy watching themselves. 
So now the average man could not only interact with his
television set through video games he could also exist within it
through camcorders.
	   The culture of the masses came from the people, images, and
symbols in the box.  Everyone wanted to be elite and live the
non-existent lifestyles of the actors and performers who
appeared to live inside the little box.  The people who acted on
shows aired in the box sometimes found it difficult to live
their own lives because the public would come up to them and
identify them to actually be the person they pretended to be on
television.  The audience became increasingly confused about
whether or not the performers in shows really lived normal lives
like everyone else.  With confusion abounding about the reality
of the things which took place within the box, it is easy to see
how the supposed news became dramatized and drama became the
news.  What was reality became subjective with regard to
television.
	   In spite of its confusing aspects, television essentially
was the culture of the masses.  The brilliant minds behind the
images were able to manipulate the masses beliefs.  All sorts of
hype could be generated through the medium, and have an effect
on the way people spoke, thought, and dressed.  Be it a foreign
nation being an evil empire or be it the need for one to buy a
Coca-Cola, the masses minds were molded to think the ways in
which the people behind the shows and advertisements desired.
	   Religion came to the masses through television at an
increasing rate.  Evangelical Christians dominated the airways
in the predominantly Christian country.  They preached the
Gospel and were able to reach more people than ever before. 
They made pleas for money to help the old and the sick, the
starving and the poor; yet kept a considerable percentage for
administrative costs which never reached the people to whom the
money sent was intended.
	   The political system went from people running the
government who had merit, strong convictions, and leadership, to
one in which the elected were voted in by an ignorant minority
of the people who had little grasp of the issues, of which there
were relatively few pertinent ones discussed.  Only emotional
symbols were used as a basis for running a campaign.  The most
successful candidates had the richest supporters, had the best
media consultants, ducked taking a stand, remained the least
controversial, and, most important of all, were able to
communicate best to the people through the little boxes.  Much
corruption existed because of this, but somehow the system
managed to survive.
	   Another development that evolved in a similar time frame as
the television was the computer.  They were big and slow in the
beginning, and not in everyday use.  However, in the 1980s and
1990s, everyday use of computers became common.  The
applications of computers were enormous.  They could be used as
word processors, spread sheets, data bases, and for making
music, making videos, making art, playing video games, designing
aircraft, and communication.  With a computer, people soon came
to discover, as the technology improved, they could do almost
anything.
	   As the 1990s progressed, for the first time television and
computers became one.  In the 1980s, the consumerism that swept
across the country had people buying all sorts of things for
their visual and aural needs in the form of high tech goods. 
There were VCRs, compact disc players, cam corders, HDTV, and,
of course, computers.  It was eventually discovered that all of
these goods that everyone apparently felt they needed could be
stored digitally on compact discs.  Aural recordings went from
phonographs to tapes and then to compact discs.  The recording
of moving pictures went from film to video to laser discs.  The
storing of data for computers went from paper cards with holes
punched in them to 5.25 inch floppy disks to 3.5 inch floppy
disks to compact discs.  Instead of people having a CD player, a
VCR, a computer, a phone, a fax machine, and a television, a
person could just buy a multi-media CPU and do everything they
ever needed in the comfort of their own home.  If one wanted to
watch a video, one could just access it through the modem on his
CPU.  The show one wished to watch would be digitized on either
his CPU's internal memory or on a compact disc and it then could
be watched at his convenience.  One could set up a piano
keyboard to make his own music and record it with studio
quality.  One could create and edit videos, superimposing
himself onto images in which his favorite actors performed. 
Virtually everything one ever needed could be accessed through
the CPU.
	   This development caused people to discover that they had
little need for anything else.  With so many people having
access to such great tools, it made it possible for the
development and expansion of technology to boom at even a
greater growth rate.  The ease of exchanging ideas made it
possible for people to discuss and develop all sorts of new
ideas.  Revolutions were taking place at such a rapid rate that
change essentially became the status quo. 
	   Television as a two dimensional representation of reality
became obsolete as newer technologies eventually replaced it. 
The CPU and TV were molded into what was at first called
Artificial Reality.  People could hook themselves up to sensors
that would let them experience life and feelings in a
pre-programmed environment which existed within the CPU.  People
loved these experiences because so much of the natural
environment had been devastated by the economic and industrial
development and the overpopulation of the planet.  One could
plug in "A Walk in the Woods" and experience all the same
feelings and perceptions that the ancients would have felt.  One
could put in a sex video in which they could have an infinite
variety of sexual pleasures without concern of pregnancy, sexual
disease, or having to see the person ever again.  
	   The only problem with Artificial Reality was that one had
to go back to what was then called reality, or what I now call
Old Reality, in order to switch to a new Artificial Reality. 
The efficiency of the machines that had taken over almost every
aspect of labor and production made it possible for most people
to never have to leave their homes.  As the use of Artificial
Reality went up, the desire for other forms of stimulation went
down.  Everybody could spend all their time doing pretty much
whatever they wanted, but nobody wanted to return to Old
Reality, it was too difficult for them.
	   Instead of farming and eating food like the ancients did,
people received all their food intravenously or in the form of
pills.  For the first few generations it was difficult at first
to adjust to this new form of nourishment, but they eventually
adjusted.  People were helped in their adjustment by the fact
that they could just plug in their Artificial Reality discs and
put in a salubrious banquet and enjoy the meal.
	   As far as medicine goes, the average life expectancy had
gone up to 200 years.  The technology available to the doctors
was so great that doctors almost became obsolete as tests of
almost every kind both on blood and DNA could determine the
illnesses and diseases that people had.
	   Childbirth had become obsolete as bioengineering made it
possible for people to have the most beautiful and perfect
babies they could ever hope for without the inconvenience of
pregnancy.  Child rearing had become a snap because all one
would have to do is hook his child up to the Artificial Reality
CPU and have the child experience an infinite amount of
experiences over which the parent could have control.
	   With some assistance, I took Artificial Reality a step
further.  I made it possible for people to experience what I
call New Reality.  In New Reality, people could now go from one
experience to another without having to put themselves back in
the existence of the Old Reality.  I was working at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a grant from Vision
Computers when I began making breakthroughs that brought
Artificial Reality to New Reality.  At first, I asked the
government if it was alright if just one experiment could set up
in which 1,000 people voluntarily lived in a Computopia, whose
physical appearance I have already described.  It was such a
success that eventually we had millions of people who wanted to
live in Computopias.  The Government and Vision Computers gave
grants to build 1,000 Computopias and put them all in the middle
of the desert in Arizona because the land there was useless and
solar energy was able to provide power efficiently to the CPUs. 
We were given a thousand year lease on the land that would be
renewable if we so desired.  A lease that long might sound
ridiculous to people from earlier epochs, but considering that
there had not been any major wars in over 300 years and that no
war had been fought on that territory for over 600 years, it was
not an unreasonably long lease.  Since we were only going to be
building what appeared to be huge prisons with no concern
whatsoever about the ascetic value of the external appearances,
the costs were low for the physical structures.  The costs of
the hardware and software for the CPU were minimal as well.
	   What I attempted to do in the first Computopia was
essentially copied for the next 999 Computopia.  For that
reason, I will describe only the first one.
	   Each Computopia is an island unto itself.  What I attempted
to do when setting them up was to get a wide diversity of people
who had had a multitude of varying experiences.  I wanted space
pilots, engineers, linguists, artists, poets, buisnesspeople,
chefs, priests, monks, naturalists, zookeepers, technicians, and
athletes, to name a few.  Essentially we wanted people who had
lived life to the fullest not only within Artificial Realities
but also in the Old Reality.
	   I made each one of these people sign a contract that gave
up all the rights they possessed in Old Reality.  This contract
also reserved the right of the CPU to disconnect them at
anytime.  What disconnection essentially meant was that they
would die.  They would die if disconnected because they would
just be a man living alone in a hundred square meter room with
no nutrition or stimulation. 
	   After an extensive screening process and getting the
volunteers to consent to the terms of the agreement, the first
generation Computopians underwent surgery.  The surgery
consisted of inserting a microchip that was connected through
bioengineered neural connectors to their brain.  It was an input
output device that transmitted to the CPU from the brain and
vice-versa.  What this meant was that the Computopian could send
out a thought of some desire or some existence in which they
desired to be and the CPU could access it from its infinite data
base.  The CPU could, in turn, record all of the thoughts of the
Computopian.
	   The discovery of the possibility of an infinite line within
a finite area in the 20th century facilitated this wonderfully
developed technology that allowed for an infinite memory within
a finite area.  The technology was so far advanced that let's
say an electrical engineer was coming up with an advanced
circuit design on his own without the assistance of the CPU. 
The CPU could record the electrical engineer's thought process
and line of reasoning so that let's say an artist had a desire
to be an electrical engineer and design a circuit instead of a
painting a portrait.  The artist could, without actually having
to do all the studying and learning previously necessary to
perform such a complex mathematical process, design a circuit
and learn how to do it while he was actually performing the
task.
	   While the first generation thought about their previous
experiences before coming to Computopia, the CPU, which already
had an infinite number of Artificial Realities, recorded all of
their thoughts.  The data base continued growing so that it
became a living world unto itself.  The CPU and the volunteers
became so united it was difficult to differentiate the
Computopians from the CPU.  For that reason, and so that the
Computopians could have a release and remain individuals, the
Computopians were disconnected from the CPU for 1.44 minutes
each day.  It was done on a rotating basis so that for every
instant of the 1,440 minutes in the day, one of the 1,000
Computopians was in Old Reality.  This served several purposes. 
One purpose was to give the Computopians a reference point of
stability as they wandered to and through new worlds never
experienced before by man.  Another reason that they had the
small amount of time in Old Reality was to make them appreciate
the wonderful experiences and worlds within which they existed. 
When the Computopians would come back to the cold, grey,
concrete cells of Old Reality, they would appreciate the New
Reality that much more.
	   Each one of the Computopians could set up any kind of
social system that they desired for themselves and could change
it at any time for any reason.  If one preferred to live in a
tropical jungle with a primitive hunting and gathering tribe,
one could.  The opportunities and variations were endless for
the people.  They could live at any point in history and live
the roles and lives from any strata of society.  Anyplace that
their imaginations could take them was waiting for them to come.
	   As time progressed, the database and the experiences lived
by the Computopians grew and formed distinctive alternative
societies that were unconceivable just ten years before the
establishment of the first Computopia.
	   Part of the Computopians contract required that their
physical biological existence in Old Reality be terminated after
200 years.  If the Computopian desired it, when his or her time
was up, all of the thoughts ever made while hooked up to the CPU
could be completely incorporated within the CPU as their own
file:  Essentially making them alive within the CPU.  For the
first generation of Computopians, this was an unsure process
because they had had an existence outside of New Reality in
which not necessarily all of their experiences could be
transferred into their new permanent file within the CPU. 
Essentially a part of them could be left behind during the
transferring process and they would never know that something
was missing.  However, every new generation became  more in
synchronicity with the CPU, as both the technology improved and
the Computopians had every thought recorded from birth until
their 200 years were up.
	   The Computopians were allowed to have a descendent
bioengineered from their genes and the genes of any desired mate
that they encountered in New Reality.  This child of theirs
would be raised by the CPU in New Reality in the way in which
the Computopian desired.  The child could be educated about what
his or her parents were like when the child reached a proper
age.  If the Computopian had decided to be integrated into the
CPU after termination, the child could meet its parent.  The
child, however, had the choice of meeting the parent, and
therefore it did not always happen.
	   In order to best deal with sabotage within the system, the
CPU always monitored closely any computer programming that  the
Computopians did.  The programs had to first be run within the
Computopian's file before being allowed within the system.  With
that measure in place, it was possible for the CPU to protect
itself because the person and his entire file would be destroyed
if he were attempting to breakdown the CPU.  The CPU was able to
trace peoples thoughts, and the logic of them, at all times, so
if, by chance, a destructive program was released, it could be
traced and destroyed.  Following the destruction of the program,
the Computopian involved would be destroyed also.  The
Computopians were also aware that if somehow they did destroy
the CPU they would be killing along with themselves the other
999 Computopians and would be serving absolutely no purpose. 
What would happen after such a disastrous event would be a
complete purging of the internal memory of the CPU by me and my
compumachines, and newly bioengineered people would be set up in
the system to recolonize the destroyed Computopia.
	   The Computopias were self-sufficient and fully automated. 
The CPU could write its own programs for dealing with problems
that arose.  The Computopias had machines that provided for
defense and maintenance of the hardware and the buildings.  The
defense for the buildings was merely precautionary since the
Government had guaranteed the sovereignty of Computopia.  My
compumachines and I were in charge of the maintenance of the
system, and I was the one contact to Old Reality.
	   Each of the Computopias were hooked up to the MEGACPU for
monitoring by me.  I had a hands off policy towards the
Computopias.  I essentially used the different Computopias to
watch how the different societies developed, though at times I
would go inside of them and experience the Computopias for my
own personal experience's sake and for research purposes.
	   As one might imagine, each of the Computopias developed in
a different way and at a different rate.  While some
Computopians became completely united and interacted with each
other in a communal way, others became 1,000 different little
worlds within which each Computopian lived and created
completely separate little worlds with their imaginations and
the Artificial Reality files to which they had access.  Those
two examples were the extremes; most Computopias had something
in between--some Computopians lived in their own world and never
interacted with the other Computopians, and some created their
own sub-societies with each other and with other "people" in
their imaginations and from the Artificial Reality files.  
	   I was essentially the link between New and Old Reality. 
The system was ideal because let's say a Computopian wished to
be in my position--straddling New Reality and Old Reality--he
could do it by creating his own New Reality.  This would cause
what I consider to be New Reality to become, for the
Computopians, Old Reality.  Thus putting those Computopians with
the most ambition in a position of supposed power as great as
the creator of the system in which he is a part.  If one follows
the natural progression of this line of reasoning, one can see
how the possibility of infinite worlds within a finite area
exists.
	   The infiniteness of these Computopias was what attracted
the initial volunteers.   They would no longer have to be
constrained within the bounds of one reality, but, instead,
could travel and create realities at their own leisure.  In
essence, one could say that each Computopian was a master of his
own reality, and, if at his death he so desired, he could become
infinite within the CPU by keeping his file active.
	   When I think of what I have created I smile with pride and
joy, knowing that I have created the ultimate in free will and
happiness.  The individual can live whatever life suits his
fancy.  I cannot imagine a more ideal world, however, I concede
that it is possible that Computopians can conceive of more ideal
worlds for themselves.  That is what is so great about the
system--no one but the individual decides what is best.  If
destruction of the system is what one decides is best for
himself, he can do it.  With the safeguards in place, it is at
best suicidal to try and destroy the CPU Computopia, since only
the individual file of the Computopian would be destroyed, and
it is at worst homicidal to try and destroy the CPU, since the
other 999 Computopians would be destroyed and purged from the
system.
	   Now that you have heard so much about these Computopias, it
is probably quite likely that accessing the file of one of the
Computopians sounds like an interesting proposition.  In order
to follow the format that I have been using all along, that of
the written word, we will access only his written words instead
of plugging in and experiencing New Reality with him.  Let us
examine in what kind of world this randomly selected Computopian
lives.  It should be interesting to see what kind of ideas he
has developed and the way in which he thinks and conveys them to
himself.
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Ideals are artificial.
Poetry is science.
Irrationality is the norm.
Non-conformists conform to nonconformist thinking and are thus
	conformists.
Society exists, but man does not.
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The technicians created a machine
That first took place in my dream
Of a tomorrow which will exist
Long after my lungs no longer persist
In taking oxygen from the air.

This machine has a CPU
That thinks faster than me or you.
I no longer have to think,
Instead, I just continue to drink
In the air of my non-existence.

If I perceive this to be true,
What can I do?
Since I am only one part of society,
To have dangerous thoughts of individuality
Is cause to be removed due to impropriety.

I spend hours wandering through the memory of this CPU
It fills me with lies and dreams so irrational
That to me they owe their existence.

But how can that be, a non-existent man causing some other 	
	existence?
With insistence the machine in my dream denies this self-
	evident truth.
My reality so enmeshed with CPU is uncertain which to
	believe...

Is it possible for a man to conceive of an irrational truth?
Or is it more likely to believe that the CPU is just a dream
	of some other man that has been superimposed on my
	non-existence?

I like both, long live irrationally true non-existence.
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A sea of green blades cuts into the azure sky
Leading me to wonder why
Things have changed.

What happened to my innocence?
Where could have it gone?
Did I lose it when I lost my good sense?
Or when I left the green lawn?

To eat a sweet candy without a care
Of gum disease, plaque and cavities,
To taste the fruit of paradise
With no guise to disguise my lust for life.

Lust!  With you I have come to trust
The fleshly desires of the skin.
Virgins!  No more time for you. 
The innocent can corrupt the innocent.
I no longer seek you.
Baby!  I love you, but will you bring me one,
Before I am finished with my fun?
Responsibility!  I want none of that.
Relationships!  A very strong possibility, but you'd be best
to have cast iron traps,
For once I am enslaved, I will be freed of desire and pain.
Stability!  More slavery, I wait for your chains.
Love!  Consume me and spit me out.  I will wait for you.

My love of stability will consume me in a relationship and spit
me out before my lust kills me.
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Anarchy/divorce/freedom
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Do you think or know?
I know I think.
One or the other!
Why?
No other choice.
With that I raised my voice,
Both!  (I think I know, but I'm not sure.)
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	How can static and dynamic functions coexist?  This word is
static.  Yet words move people to action or inaction.  Or my
words can be ignored.  My word is sitting on this paper.  This
word has meaning.  This meaning is qualified by other words. 
But this word will sit here forever or until it is destroyed. 
Will this word still have meaning?  Or will it just be nonsense. 
I think nonsense because you can't ever lose with nonsense.  But
can I win with it?  I think so, but I don't know.  If I knew one
word very well, I would be happy.  To be intimate with a word is
to be alive.  I am unsure if intimacy with mathematical formulas
and equations is as good, but it probably is.  I suppose that it
depends whether or not you feel numbers and equations are
capable of feelings.  Numbers are so cold and impersonal, I
prefer words and paintings.  Numbers are too objective,  I
prefer subjective interpretations.  Even though subjectivity is
nonsense, it brings life and smiles.  
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	What is the difference between the words resolution and
revolution?  I will address the most fundamental difference, "S"
and "V". "S" is basically two semi-circles that are connected. 
Where they connect it is indistinguishable where one of the arcs
begin and the other ends.  I suppose that one could call the
semi-circles waves.  In fact, the word "sine" begins with an "S"
probably because it looks like one.  Then comes along his buddy
the cosine, supposedly his friend and it all seems fine.  But
alas, in comes the tangent and its totally screwed from there. 
Its kind of like Genesis.  First there was Adam.  Then from Adam
came Eve.  However, there was a problem.  She was exactly like
him except her point of origin was different, and she became his
counterpoint--a mirror image, yet complete opposite.  Inherent
to its nature, everything became screwed, as I said before, or
complex, if one prefers, due to the tangent.  It may seem as
though I am going off on some tangent, but I feel that my ideas
bring resolutions to the revolutions.  The resolution is that
there is always revolution therefore conflict.  Since there is
always conflict, there is never a final resolution until the
end.  Since there is no end in sight, it doesn't matter.  The
supposed evil that God gave us is a tangent, but this tangent is
free will.  We have this tangent called free will but it is not
evil.  It is good, as long as we realize that it has to be
either one or the other.  So it doesn't matter that much whether
or not one or the other is taking place.  We should try and do
what is best for ourselves, but since we are imperfect, we
shouldn't stress about our mistakes too much; they are
inevitable.
     A "V" is basically two rays at a 90 degree angle.  It is
definitely not as smooth, shapely, or sexy as "S".  It doesn't
flow.  It is more violent and volatile than "S".  The things
that I think of when I think of a "V" are victory and peace when
the symbol is formed with the fingers.  Other miscellaneous
thoughts are: triangles, pyramids, fertility (vagina, the shape
of the pubic mound, the proximity of the breasts in relation to
the vagina, all demonstrated with various fertility dolls found
in miscellaneous cultures), and vectors used in construction
(among other things).  From these connotations that I have
observed of the letter "V", it appears that for some reason the
blank space in between the two connected lines has been filled
in by my mind.  I suppose that leads me to a delta in the Greek
alphabet, but I'll try to keep away from the ends of flowing "S"
shaped rivers and Greeks.  Is it my mind or will there always be
a tangent?  It happened again.  First there was a segment
emanating from one point, then there was another.  The angle
between these two segments was 90 degrees, then came the tangent
in my mind of the third line.  From this tangent, which caused a
triangle, came two other half-sized angles (Abel and Cain? 
Which was the angle and which was the angel? ha,ha).  These two
other angles add up to the original angle, and together make a
sum of 180 degrees.  Which is, of course, half the total number
of degrees in a circle.  Or in other words, the number of
degrees in a triangle is equal to the number of degrees of each
of the semi-circles.
	   So the difference between the letters "S" and "V" is
significant, yet it is the similarity between the two which is
striking.  One consists of two semi-circles and the other of two
lines.  A circle is infinite and a line is infinite.  However,
in order for anything to become of a circle or a line each needs
a counterpart.  The two cause an infinite number of tangents
once again.  Familiar.
	   Getting back to the Adam and Eve explanation, one can see
Adam as being the circle and Eve as being the line.  The two are
interchangeable, indistinguishable, and interdependent, for Adam
without Eve has nothing and vice-versa.  However, with Eve he
has everything for the possibilities are endless as we have
observed.
	   Whether or not the apple was offered or eaten is
insignificant to the human condition.  The reason being that as
soon as the counterpart was created, the tangent existed; time
was the only thing that slowed the growth of knowledge.  The
Church preaches that knowledge is evil and ignorance bliss, but
this teaching is incorrect.  They are both an inevitable part of
life.  Since we begin with innocence and a clean slate from the
environmental nurture side, and with certain genetic
inclinations from the nature perspective, the clean slate is
naturally filled over time as we lose our innocence/ignorance
and seek knowledge of the past and of our heritage.  Having a
taste of the fruit was not evil as the Church professes, it was
simply inevitable over time.  This is one of the many
shortcomings of the Church--its interpretation of good and evil. 
They are simply counterparts just as Adam and Eve were.  Neither
ignorance nor knowledge are good or evil they simply exist. 
They are one or the other.  In our ignorance we gain knowledge
and better understand the difference between good and evil, and
attempt to act upon our knowledge.  However, just as before, the
tangents that stem from our newfound knowledge create a
realization of how we and everyone else are even more ignorant
than we knew before.  In our quest for knowledge we become
increasingly aware of how truly innocent/ignorant we are.  As we
reach the abyss, we become completely innocent and knowledgeable
simultaneously--the journey becomes complete as we realize the
harm we have done and the good we have achieved.   The person
finally has to face up to all he has done as he breaks on
through to the other side.  This final state is inevitable as
time passes, it is not good or evil.  "I am sorry," is all one
can say or do when the inevitable occurs.  It is then a brand
new day, life goes on and will continue to grow.  
	   This little explanation of Adam and Eve and the Tree of
Knowledge is just a tangent of the Biblical version of the
origin of mankind.   It is just one of a number of applications
which can vary from my simplistic view of a "V" and a tangent
that I filled in with my mind to the apparently paradoxical
second law of thermodynamics.  This law states that as time
progresses entropy increases.  The apparent paradox of this law
is the order which has arisen out of the universe over time. 
The order is explained by noting that it has been gained, let's
say on the planet Earth, at the net expense of the system as a
whole.  Hence the fuel being burnt by the Sun is bringing
temporary order on the planet Earth, but over time the net
entropy will have increased.   This paradigm is similar to the
other examples previously mentioned.  Before I said so sorry
life goes on and will continue to grow with regards to death. 
With this example I say, so sorry, time goes on and net entropy
will increase with regards to the temporary order that is taking
place on Earth.  Once again the differences exist, yet the
similarities are striking.  The cycles and explanations of very
seemingly different things such as thermal dynamics, geometry,
trigonometry, language, and religion, have very similar origins. 
In fact they remind me of the tool I am using to convey these
ideas.  It can do amazing things all stemming from the binary
unit--0 or 1.  
	   In my opinion there really is little difference between
revolution and resolution.  They are both constant and exist. 
At this point in time there is a revolution taking place at
every tick of the clock, we just don't realize it while it is
taking place.  As we speak, society expands at such a rapid rate
that we don't even have time to notice the revolutions taking
place.  These revolutions will continue on faster and faster. 
There will be no resolutions to these revolutions because they
will continue to expand and exist because time marches on and
the inevitable is the inevitable. 
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	   In my discussion on revolution and resolution I applied
lines and circles to Adam and Eve and the Tree of Knowledge and,
of course, to the letters "S" and "V".  My religion is based on
a sort of Holy Trinity not dissimilar to that of the early
Christian religion.  Instead of God as the Father, there was
zero, which was the beginning since nothing is original, and
since nothing is numerically symbolized as zero.  Instead of
Jesus Christ as the Son of God, there was the numerical symbol
one.  Something came from nothing.  This is not rational, which
is always the case in religion, yet it is true.  In the
Christian sense, one can reach atonement (at-one-ment) with God
due to Christ's suffering as a man or as a number on earth. 
Thus one can reach none (God, nothing, and original)  through
the One.  Since we have nothing and something, it is not
surprising that we are surrounded by a presence of everything
that can never be reached because the combinations are of
infinite proportions.  In the Christian sense the third part of
the Trinity is, of course, the Holy Spirit.  It is something
that surrounds but cannot be reached.  This relates to the
religion of numbers in the symbolic form of infinity.  The
barest form of this religion is if 0, then 1, therefore
infinity.  This not only helps explain the beginning of time (we
assume there was nothing and then there was something and now
there is everything possible and nothing impossible), but the
beginnings of the New Reality which took over the world.  New
Reality, of course, began to take place within the computers
that men created in the 20th century.  It was no coincidence
that all the great things that came as a result of computers was
a result of the binary unit, 0 and 1, or if one prefers, a
circle and a line, and the infinite combinations of the two. 
	   As a Computopian, I am in part a creation of another man
and so is much of my existence.  Instead of man being something
which came after nothing, he became nothing which created
something.  In other words, the man who created Computopia
became something external to the system in which I am a part. 
One might say that Dr. Lunus became to the Computopians,
including myself, God.  He created the system in which we live--
Is that not what God did to the system in which Dr. Lunus lives? 
I think so.  But how do I know how many worlds within worlds
exist?
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	   It was so strange at first to go from reality to reality
just at the change of a thought.  It was like some insane dream
with translucent scrolls of poetry flying through the air as a
million colors weaved through the sky.  The land becoming from
one moment to another lava, water, hydrogen, sulfur, and then a
pile of feathers through which I fell.  It was great spending
all my time in what the ancients called a dream with the
landscape always changing from moment to moment.  But, after a
while, the lack of stability began to grate upon me and my
existence.  Dr. Lunus attempted to grant us stability through
giving us 1.44 minutes in Old Reality per day, but that just
caused instability.  It was unstable because in the course of
one day you could live a multitude of experiences lasting what
appeared to be a thousand years or it could be what appeared to
be four seconds before being involuntarily thrust back into the
cold nightmarish existence of Old Reality.  For that reason,
after only two experiences back into Old Reality, I made a
program that substituted my real stream of consciousness with an
artificial one that fooled the CPU into believing that it was I
going back to Old Reality.  The hands off policy of the Outer
Circle has facilitated this freedom and I thank God, I mean Dr.
Lunus, for New Reality.
	   After experiencing so much change all of the time, I
yearned for stability.  For my existence, I set up a world not
too different from the one of Old Reality.  There are
imperfections in the world that I have created for myself, but
they do not bother me because if they do, I just change them. 
This is not to say that I do not go on manic sex episodes or on
psychedelic mind bending experiences or travel to foreign
worlds; I still do these things and enjoy them.  I just spend
most of my time creating art and writing my thoughts.  When I am
not creating alone in my own worlds, I meet with another female
Computopian.  I suppose that one could say she is my mate and I
love her.  In fact, there is no question that this is the case. 
When we get together we create even more grandiose worlds.  I
love my non-existence.
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	   The sun sunk sleepily into the sea as I dreamt of a
psychedelic sky screaming some speechless song.  It beckoned me,
as the sea beckons a sailor, to explore its vastness.  I doubted
my saftey, unsure if the Sky Song was something to be trusted. 
The emptiness that I encountered at first worried me, as I had
heard and read of the dangers of attempting to directly face
such vastness, but I found that after one goes off the edge and
actually into the abyss it is being on solid ground and then on
the edge knowing that what one thought to be solid is not is
what the most fearless of men weep at.  Once one crosses into
the abyss he becomes infinite in all ways.  The
incomprehensibility of such things to many comes with time,
quite frequently at the deathbed.  So sad yet true.  Dreams,
however, provide a nice interlude to our dreams within our big
dream--the reality with which we dominate the world.  God forbid
one has a completely different reality than the dominant reality
in a society, for that person is a looney, insane, a lunatic.
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     Dr. Lunus here again.  For my decendents that read this, I
hope that you don't find any of this disturbing.  I know that it
might bother you that this Computopian seems insane.  I suppose
that some people from Old Reality might have a problem with the
concept of giving people operations in which they are hooked up
to machines and then locked up in barren and isolated concrete
rooms.  But I think it is fine, in fact, I think it is
wonderful....
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	   A gentle woman's voice broke his train of thought and said,
"Dr. Lunus, time to take your medication."