Preserving The Good, and Passing It Down. This is one of the goals of a reader-ist, a writer-ist, an artist, a food-ist, an heirloom seed-ist. It's all the same love.
It's the same force that drove the Alchemist. Maybe the art form slowly fades away but the secrets linger for those with the Love.
“Whatever you teach, be brief, that your readers’ minds may readily comprehend and faithfully retain your words. Everything superflous slips from the full heart.”
-Ars Poetica. Horace
These words above are said to have been written over 2000 years ago in the year 19 BC. Way before the iPhone. I guess if that is true then it just goes to show that some things never change. A lot of people like their information to come in bits and bytes, and their food to come in super size and big gulps.
I’ll do my best to be brief but I think that a byte is a bit less than I can condense this piece of writing down to. For reference, if not clarity, 8 bits make a byte. A bit is said to be atomic, and is the smallest unit of storage. But we also have a qubit, which is quantum, which is smaller than atomic. So clarity is relative in theory.
Okay, that was a lot of superfluous. If you’re still reading thanks. I’ll take it that you have more of an appetite for intelligent fun than regurgitated nonsense.
So anyway…Seriously
I’m saying a readerist is a type of artist, but somewhat less valued. But there are us readers still out there and unbeknownst to the masses we are like the quintessence of bit, bytes and qubits. Reading a book opens your personal memory bank and deposits the gold lost to the AI-ists. Paracelsus said
the quintessence is contained in each of the four elements, and is the fifth element. An ethereal substance, a vital force, the active principle of being.
It is understood, reading isn't everyone's cup of tea, or joke to smoke, so we carry on the task and preserve the intelligence for the future explorers of the future past. I heard someone describe this type of work as "preserving the good, and passing it down".
Many users online are completely unaware that much of what is on the web in the forms of articles, images, likes and comments, is in fact - or fiction- written by artificial means. Plenty of bits and bytes are generated by the SMART intelligence of a non human mind.
But Seriously, could reading become a lost art? Are reader-ists already on the endangered species list? But before we start the campaign to save the readers, let’s remember the writers, artists, alchemists etc... who have held humanity together like the aether and moved us forward. Let's begin to remember the keepers of authentic brain function, creating authentic realities.
And it is there, in that field of memory that we gain the clarity or information that is we find in hindsight. You know .. that 20/20 vision we get after the pandemonium of the present.
ceramic art pieces by mb art studios
Thank you for reading.
