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You can't force polyfusion“Twenty-five hundred years of rational culture are in the process of dissolution. Age-old habits of conceptualization will not serve to train observation on the effects of the new man-made forms of energy. Since Plato, philosophers and scientists have attributed constant forms and patterns of action only to the world of ‘Nature.’ Both Plato and Aristotle, and their followers, as well as all the other schools of philosophy, have refused to recognize any patterns of energy arising from man-made technologies. Having invented ‘Nature’ as a world of rigorous order and repetition, they studied and observed only ‘natural’ forms as having power to shape and influence psyche and society. The world of man’s artifacts was considered neutral until the electric age. As the electric environment increasingly engulfed the old Greek ‘Nature,’ it became apparent that ‘Nature’ was a figure abstracted from a ground of existence that was far from ‘natural.’”More Marshall#A The Folium Diary reruns in August!08/01 Hello World08/02 The Girl From Spaceship Earth08/03 Valuing Life08/04 The Hard Crowd08/05 Nomadic Theory08/06 The Original Frankenstein08/07 The Operating System08/08 Decolonizing Wealth08/09 Astrology Is Real08/10 Doppelgänger08/11 Digital Communion08/12 Parable of the Talents08/13 Danielle vs Bloody Jack08/14 The Folium Dispatch08/15 Daisy Drops