The believers are dead.
The nihilists are dead.
The revolutionaries are dead.
The greatest generation is almost dead.
The hippies are as good as dead.
What remains? What comes after
post modern, post industrial, post punk, post post?
What can you say
after everything has been said
and contradicted?
By a process of auto association
we extract Nothing from something.
We have left ideas behind
because ideas are old school.
We have left experience behind
because experience didn't work out.
What remains is the new turned old
The automat, the Turing machine,
the idea of doubting ourselves into mechanistic non-being.
Such an old idea which was only born yesterday.
What is new under the sun?
Of course, Nothing.
What was before
is what comes again and again and again.
And as soon as we forget about it
and join nihilists, revolutionaries, vets and hippies,
someone will think these same thoughts
in a different and original way.
And won't that be something!
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