/lit/ - Literature

it seems to me that with the collapse of human knowledge into searchable databases easily retrievable at any moment that what will become more valuable than the knowledge itself is that of the directional signifiers. Complex and abstract words like those found here can be used as highly refined tools to highly sophisticated tasks but their base syntactical unit is hermetically self-contained apart from etymological heritability. That is to say, the only way to know of these unknown unknown words or "keys" or "tools" is to already know of them in a catch-22. Thus intermediary information brokers and media cartographers will be indispensable as curators and stewards of not just knowledge the entirety of art and media. The occult tradition has long operated on such notions of esoterica.

If this board is evidentiary it seems the struggle of young pupils today is not a search for meaning but a struggle even find the loose thread in Plato's cave to begin pulling on. They know something is not right but a plume of fog and ash rising from the collapse of hierarchies and narratives leaves them wandering among a deluge of digital ruins and commodification.