Coincidences with you are getting stranger. On 23 June 2012 02:56:42 I saved this (without memory until now – Bereshit reminded):

There goes Charles, riffing on his night-writer again. The nocturnal creature, banging in silence:

‘To read in times of war we must wait for darkness. Illumination leads only to destruction. Better to pluck out your eyes and follow digital impressions. You cannot see, but neither can they. Perpetual darkness follows, but you have circumvented sight.

16th December 2002 [three months prior to Operation Iraqi Freedom]: an American military C-130 transport plane circles outside of Iraqi airspace – ‘information radio’ aka PsyOps broadcasts begin. Arabic love songs and biographies of internationally acceptable Arabs play reassuring messages to the Iraqi people, all the while jamming the signals of local stations and raising the spectre of invasion simply in being-there. Steganography for the masses. Agitprop. Fuck Saddam. We’re taking him out.

At what point do we choose to wake up? When does stability either (i) collapse or (ii) lose priority? (clue: there is no mutual exclusivity). Iraq II should have been a political awakening for a whole Western generation. Political morality descended to infantile deception – ‘yes, I’m listening’, the toddler says in brazen innocence, all the while continuing on his pre-determined trajectory of destruction.

Apocalyptic thinking/satire/parody/renumeration?

As the End of the World draws near, industries are slowly revealing their true natures. Here are a few choice examples:

The energy sector burns energy.

The renewable sector burns net energy.

Banking bankrupts (Western) Civilisation.

Agrichemical destroys agriculture.

Agriculture destroys the environment.

Pharmaceuticals erode health (we’re one step away from the daily health+ pill – no pill = diminished health (i.e. sickness)).

Blah blah…

Institute for Blind Youth

Everyone watching these horrific actions will be struck by how they were organised via social media. Free flow of information can be used for good. But it can also be used for ill, and when people are using social media for violence we need to stop them. So we are working with the police, the intelligence services and industry to look at whether it would be right to stop people communicating via these websites and services when we know they are plotting violence, disorder and criminality. I have also asked the police if they need any other new powers. – David Cameron [approximately]

To communicate silently and without light. To communicate blindly and mutely. Braille. Communicate silently. Without light. Dark writing. Silent writing. Reading. Holding hands (in the dark). Secrets. Codes. Language. Secret letters. Letters. In an envelope. Opening a letter. To read through an envelope. Hands in envelopes. That means something! Dead hands? Thieving hands?! Wars always start with letters. Dumas. It’s all French. To write in the dark. To read in the dark. Without a torch. Or a torch under the bed clothes. A boy named Louis. No! In 1821 met a man named Charles. Diderot died in 1784. Louis Braille was born in 1809. They did not meet! And this is a story for now. All writing is night writing. Illumination for the blind/in the night/for those at war (language for war… war is anti-communication – well that’s a given – night writing is partisan; war is disconnection). Is it the story about Braille explicitly? Or more for now. Everyone should learn night writing. Like yoga. As rebellion. Digital night writing. Silent and without light – uninterpretable to Cameron; unceasingly shifting. Fluxian scripts. Can’t be silent or in shadow (well… shouldn’t be…) so be silent to him/them, unlit to… Or peat? Reading life through peat. Peat is night writing?? No. Night writing is a code. If you can interpret the code you can read at night. Night is the end. If you can interpret the code you can read the beginning. A character called beginning who only talks in the code (Bereishit) – but all characters talk very little. You learn the code and so bring about his demise. (A Moon Type poem to finish) Peat is the code. No. The code is applicable to peat. Night writing is a system applied to symbols – peat illuminated. Cutting peat is night writing. Burning peat is night writing. Night illuminates the day when reading is done only in the dark. Peat doesn’t have to have anything to do with this. Burning peat is too visual. But peat is symbolic. Ancient and enduring. Attempts to kill peat! Kill language, kill dialogue through supervision (national grids). What is communication – speech and sight and ears [beginning with a focus on the mouth, the ears and innards]. Night writing is anti-communication. Titus Andronicus. Always. Remove the tongue, the limbs and stumps can still talk (Lavinia). Secret communiqués. Undetected communication. Communicating without someone/thing else knowing. Communication as dialogue not descent into abyss – is this a change with networks? Whispers. Keep it level. Say less says more. Night writing says more because it’s silent. And only the essential. Brevity. A character? Write in dots. Dots are splinter cells. Zoom in on the dots. Dots are burrows (surface changes to the landscape change interpretation). Dot arrangement gives overall meaning (exterior to dot). Understand the dots, but what’s the story? David Cameron wants to outlaw night writing dot make all communication available (and limitable) dot night writing is the essence of all writing dot Christian fish. Use night writing/moon writing symbols for names. Silent, hidden and unpronounceable. We’re doing it already. But night writing failed – only because it was too complicated to read!

Why did I like it? The calm silence. Because I write at night. Peaceful. Paradox. Paradox at essence. I should like characters to be without voice. Is this control? To stop the characters talking – to stop them writing for themselves. To slow the world down and make sense. Night writing when time is not the boundary but presence – hide your presence by expanding the timeframe for communication. Night writing is slow. Time goes slower at night. Night writing expands life. The sea will be important. Does anyone die at sea? Abyss. The return. The greatest veil. Someone should die at sea. Lots of people die at sea. Lovers always die at sea. Their souls unite in its oneness. Svevo and the sea wave.

If night writing is essence it is also parasitic upon writing and secondary. We translate into night writing. Can we end with pure night writing? That would be worthwhile. How it would be..? Spatially attractive. Without need for translation. A surrender (end to war – a new (birth of) communication). Transformation (of symbols?) This sounds like war and splinter cells (languages) – rhizomatic burrows. Means to escape. Fluxian scripts. Not encryption. Oscillating language – to communicate silently and blindly in the daytime (digitally). This doesn’t fit with peat. Lady Jane (or whoever)! The natives take to the hills. Speak no English. Peat! Stoke the fire. What’s wrong with old communication? Too noisy!

Night writing/Braille – reading with your finger. Learning to read – scanning across pages with your finger. Directing the eyes. Communicating to the eyes. Braille a more direct transmission to brain. Eyes are not essential to communication, just useful. Fingers – the physicality of communication. Primitive body language. Joyce had blind eyes. Lucia had cross eyes. They kept operating. Who operated on Joyce?

Night writing

Bereishit ran his finger across the page and repeatedly stubbed his forefinger into the keypad:

‘ r s t.’*

[What is Bereishit’s number? – 25r59s89t]

* this included moon type which hasn’t displayed here.

Your hollowing out link is nothing new — just reaching new sectors. The Hollowing Out Chain is longer than Bitcoin’s and it is, of course, going to zero.

Kabbalah teaches evil preceded good in Creation, that darkness preceded light. The “breaking of the vessels” [Shevirat ha-kelim] concept, Sheinkin writes, is “crucial to the whole Jewish mysticism”. This breaking is part of “God’s plan for the universe” — “this theme repeats itself over and over in the Bible”.

Ten vessels of the Sefiroth [the spheres on the tree] broke because they couldn’t contain “unimaginably powerful spiritual force[s]” — reconstituted as pairs, they became the five Partzufim (“persona”, acting as personality archetypes where “the human personality is modeled”).

Sheinkin discusses a paradox concerning the Ten and Five involving time and logic — they both exist simultaneously because in the spiritual dimension “once something exists, it always exists”.

We are seeking here to find analogies or situations that can help us to understand that which in essence is not logical. This is because part of logic is based on the notion of time. But remember that at the level of the Sefiroth, there is no time; time flows downward from them.

The material plane consists of husks and holy sparks.

Why did they break? “[T]he breaking of the vessels and their reconstituting allows free will to come into existence. This is because free will depends upon the existence of evil” [note: there is no “entity of” or “primary force known as” evil, however]. Not all the bits reconstituted — those became “the essence of evil”.

Evil, then, was created from fallen good. The primary reason for this was so that it could be elevated back again to the good. If evil had existed as an entity unto itself, there may have been no way to make evil other than what it was. But if evil was really broken shards of good, then it would certainly be possible to take them and bring them back to their original source. At that point, they would become good again. This is indeed what Jewish mystics see as the task of humanity as a whole and of every individual. Man’s role on earth is to take these broken pieces and, through our actions and way of life, to elevate them back to the source of good. [note: “Messianic task is the redemption of all the holy sparks of Tohu”] When this cosmic process is completed, all evil as we understand it today will cease to exist. From God’s point of view, therefore, first there was good and then there was evil. But on our level, evil came before good; that is why we have darkness preceding light.

Contrast collecting the holy sparks with the processing power of Bitcoin mining.

Well the why could be something as simple as there really is such a thing as a natural monopoly.