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EXT. GLOBAL VILLAGE - CONTINUOUS
A montage of images worldwild:
people of all ages, connected,
listening to music, watching screens, interacting with data dust entities.
⟰
"Attention, attention,"
"the broadcast cuts in,"
"Epic your knows,"
"for all of your sins under the suns of Beowulf thing."
μ
"The medium's message, come together"
"the massage, the mold mind web lovelife,"1
"in the global village square,"2
"new flesh for old school dinners."
⚹ (ALPHA)
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."3
- Einstein
(The camera focuses on a group of young people gathered around a makeshift stage in a public square.
The MPHDJ is beat juggling vinyl, surrounded by a crowd.)
MPHDJ:
"Scratching the surface,"
"of a deeper fly design times blind,"
"Cantos"4 and "Wake,"5
"in a blog mind in a bog tide, who decides?”
⊗
"Question the bloody narrative,"
"doubt what you see,"
"model agnosticism,"6
"sets your shackled mind willy."
⚹ (BETA)
"I, a সীমাবদ্ধ জীব (simাবদ্ধ জীব - Bengali for finite being), do not have unlimited time."
(The scene shifts to a news report playing on a large screen in Times Square.
The news anchor, a stern-faced woman, is speaking in a serious tone.)
NEWS ANCHOR:
"Proffs’ baffled,"
"by the coming phenomenon,"
"an upwelling,"
"of unknown origin, move 37."
^1 "The medium's the message, the massage, the mold mind web": A riff on Marshall McLuhan's famous dictum, "The medium is the message." Marshall McLuhan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_medium_is_the_message
^2 "global village square": Refers to Marshall McLuhan's concept of the "global village." Global Village: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_village
^3 "Two things are infinite...": Albert Einstein: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/albert_einstein_121390
^4 "Cantos": Refers to Ezra Pound's epic poem, *The Cantos*. Ezra Pound: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezra_Pound
^5 "Wake": A reference to James Joyce's *Finnegans Wake*. James Joyce: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnegans_Wake
^6 "model agnosticism": A philosophical stance advocated by Robert Anton Wilson. Robert Anton Wilson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Anton_Wilson
