Tired of this persistently bothersome life? Tired of getting your nerves frazzled every time you viddy the news? Well then take a deep refreshing breath and prepare to celebrate, because it’s been found.
The grand connection. If there is one.
Follow a yellow brick road of wandering on the ole’ Internet and you can end up in all manner of places. For that is what we are talking about here, that seemingly short search for some tidbit of information that will lead you to the strangest of places.
Often unappreciated, seldom ignored, we are talking about the infamous tangent…
You see we have all at times been in the habit of occupying the fine state of Michigan. And as you all know there is a township in Michigan called Arcadia, Mi. Which led to a link about Arcadia (utopia).
But then got sidetracked and went to Arcadia Brewing. The beer is ok, but the pub is fun. Then went over and read about Utopia and saw this:
Etymology
The term “utopia”" is combined from 2 Greek words - “not” (ou) and “place” (topos), thus meaning “nowhere” or more literally, “not-place”. The word “utopia” was created to suggest two Greek neologisms simultaneously: outopia (no place) and eutopia (good place). In this original context, the word carried none of the modern connotations associated with it.
And so the next step was to here because an anarchist community sounds like an oxymoron. Skimming, wound up here.
After reading the entry on economic mutualism, a certain shade of depression emerged. Said to hell with all this, and got a beer.
And that, my friend is how a tangent can work… when wandering upon the web.
Of course having reached this depressing spot I had long forgotten what I was looking for originally. So i went and played more viral billiards.
February 14th, 2006 at 5:51 pm
[…] The reason this is so fresh in my mind is another example of what talking plant spoke of in his excellent post ‘it’s been found‘, namely the idea of the internet working as a wonderful tool for tangental thinking. Without going into the details, suffice it to say that I came across a number of references to Joseph Beuys in the comic Cat and Girl, and not knowing who Joseph Beuys was I Wikipedia’d him and came across this… Perhaps Beuys’ most famous performance work is How To Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare (1965), in which he walked around a gallery with his face smeared with honey and covered in gold leaf, carrying a dead hare to whom he talked, explaining the pictures before them. The audience for this performance was kept outside, only able to see the goings on from behind a clear screen. Beuys said the work was concerned with issues such as human and animal consciousness, and the problems of thought and language. Wikipedia […]