Sweet. This is very, very well done.

i love it. +fav. i think you need to make a book of your net-poems.

thats the plan one day...hopefully

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wow i love this. this is one of the best net -poems i've read! would you mind if i was to use an edited highlight of this to turn into songlyrics?

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Hey! Somehow I missed reading/replying to your comment...I'm not entirely sure how I did that. I'd love to hear what you do with this if you use it for song lyrics, but I'm afraid I'd have to be credited and informed if you're going to be using it for any commercial purposes. It's only because I intend on publishing it at some point in the future, otherwise I wouldn't care about such things.

Anyway, thanks for the comment and thanks for taking time to read the poem! I'm glad you liked it!

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thats cool. I'm having a bit of touble with my band at the moment but onece thats sorted out i'll msg you with any ideas i have thanks.

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This reminds me of what originally snared me into this genre.....as horrible as it sounds it was the movie "Hackers"and the reading of the "Hackers Manifesto" the movie has kind of become one of those "comfort movies" for me. Meaning a movie that isn't really good but its just fun to watch.....gives you that warm feeling like you are actually connected to the world. as counter-intuitive as that may sound its probably closer to the human situation then most would like to admit. Most see our creativity and our art as what serperates us from the animals but I think of it as something that connects us to them in a very profound way. The notion that humans do not harmonize with their environment as animals do and instead change it for better and worse is one that I think is false. People who think that animals harmonize with their environments are looking at nature with their eyes closed, they never seem to connect with the fact that animals introduced to foriegn environments tend to either die or cause havoc with that system's status quo. The same goes for us, except with the advent of the internet and virtuality we have done something new, instead of merely changing the physical world we have created our own. This is what seperates us from the animals, it is not our creativity but how we choose to express it. Animals express their creativiy through survival eventually adapting to their environment and it to them or they die. Instead, since we have less to fear from nature with our technology we fight it instead of embracing it. This says something about our nature, how we always seem to fight the current. If looked at from a Taoist point of view it is has such an elegant and beautiful logic to it. This explains the relevance of every culture having its counter-culture. So what does that make cyber-punk? What is the opposite of cyberpunk? When you say, "Either way, we found a world, too big for us to even comprehend, let alone control." it is making the assumption that our world is under our control. I agree that the internet is vast, but the essence of its creation is the fact that we DO control it. Not any one person but as a species it is our brainchild. We created cyberspace because we don't control reality, only our view of it. So in our rebellious nature we scoffed at the universe and built our own. How can we control something so vast? We don't even have to try, we just push our buttons and click our mice. Virtual is a reality of its own, actually if you look at it in an even more abstract view perhaps it isn't a tangent of reality, it IS our reality, its just stripped of the world. Perhaps this is why the "disconnected" are drawn to it so, we only want to exist again.

Sorry ......*looks up at long comment* its 2 am and I was on a roll. I really do love the anthem, I think it would be cool if there were a series of these things. Each addressing a different aspect of cyber. A "Anthology of the Switch" heh heh. I hope you post up that steampunk novel you are working on.

Oh yeah P.S. +plus fav

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Thanks so much for your profound comment. But think about this: what if instead of virtual reality/the internet being a world that we've created, it is an extension of the senses, allowing us to see and experience a world that existed all along underneath the surface? Just speculation

And yes, there will be a series

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Intresting

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