Phil Bruns rages against the machine in Lou Shaw’s MacBird, Player’s Ring, 1968.
Sure, you can rage against The Machine. Lotta good it’ll do ya. You can’t change human nature, and you can’t change the world. Happily, you don’t have to, not as long as you’re wearing a Quantum Witch Ammy.
What, exactly, does the Quantum Witch do?
I’m not entirely sure why or how it does it, but it seems to select the Best Possible Path out of whatever Paths lie before you at the moment of selection. In short, it seems to guide one through an endless and perpetual series of choices, all seemingly random, and amongst them, chooses the “Best POSSIBLE Path”, noting the operant word “possible”.
Okay, what exactly do I mean by that?
I’ll try to do a backflip into an explanation. At every quantum juncture, there are a variety of possible turnings. Think of a crossroad with a billion ways to go, including up, down and sideways, all paths radiating outwardly from the perspective of that choice-point, ie; the aforementioned “crossroads”, or JUNCTION.
Still with me? Okay, grab aholt of your Reality, ’cause it’s a big leap of faith from here…
The world of Quantum is unreachable simply because we cannot see it, touch it, feel it or in any ordinary way sense it. It’s not “real” to us because, unlike the Einsteinian Universe, we have no personal experiential data for quantum events as we do for events above the atomic level, down to which we can sort of “see” with electron microscopes, but with our bare eyeballs, we can’t see it, and the quantum world is even smaller and more immersed in the overwhelming material universe — which is a bunch of quantum stuff all stuck together, hanging out below the speed of light — well, hot dingy-dangies, you can see where this would cause a lot of trouble.
So I say, the heck with it.
But that only lasts a while, because like it or not, know it or not, the quantum world is in your face all the time.
Rage against the machine and all you’ll do is hurt yourself. It’s pointless, and ultimately even more futile than struggling against a Vogon Guard, whilst being hauled off to the airlock of the UFO. It doesn’t pay to struggle.
But then do I mean to knuckle under to the miseries of life?
Well, I could mean that, but I don’t. What I’m betting is that you’re smarter than that. No point beating your head against a brick wall, (klop kopp on vant) is there? I thought you’d see it my way. Okay, so if life sucks, then you die, what can you do about it?
Don’t try to change the world. Change worlds.
Does that sound like a paradox? It isn’t, you know. Let’s examine exactly what I mean by “Don’t try to change the world. Change worlds”…
Changing the world doesn’t work. It’s a machine, and should you happen to momentarily succeed to bring it down locally, overall you’ve missed the boat, because there are literally uncountable numbers of earth-like planets out there, most of which are very vulnerable to marketing by anyone offering really different hats.
No, I’m not kidding. You can’t bring goods across a state line — meaning a dimensional barrier or even your local membranes — so how can you make a living when you land somewhere?
First of all, if you ever do decide to UFO, meaning to go XD (pronounced “ex-dee”) or Extra-Dimensional, you’ll have to bring something other than dry goods with you. The small store of sandwiches and soft drink will be gone before you land.
What you learn to bring is intellectual trade goods. Ideas cross barriers without hassle. Problem is, you can’t bring technology. Well, you can, but there really is a Prime Directive. It’s a law that can’t be broken. You can’t directly interfere with local life forms.
I know, Captain Kirk does it all the time.
Sure, sure, it’s for humane reasons. But that’s the core of the Early Settlers, who brought civilization and scarlet fever to the savages in the New World — at least, new to them.
So if you were at a crossroad, and you knew you were at a crossroad, and you could see all the signs pointing in every direction, which way would you go?
See what I mean?
The choices are open in every direction, but most of the paths suck. So how to choose? I say, don’t choose. Wear and Bond With a Quantum Witch Amulet and let it gently nudge you in the “right” direction. Other ammies have this property as well, of course, but the QW has an amazing amount of XD (Extra-Dimensional) Punch.
Will everything go good from then on?
You haven’t been listening. I said the BEST of all POSSIBLE Paths, is what I said — check up top to see if I’m right.
Are there going to be bumps in the Best of All Possible Paths? I asked you not to make me laugh when my lips are chapped.
See You At The Top!!!
gorby