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INT. NETWORK - CONTINUOUS
ALPHA and BETA are navigating a comple representation of the Dymaxion Map.1
⚹ (ALPHA)
The future is not a straight line,
but a branching tree,
a web unevenly distributed.
⚹ (BETA)
Fuller's "anticipatory design science,"2
a way to navigate the complexities,
to choose a path with facets.
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"We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims."3
⚹ (ALPHA)
But can we truly anticipate
the consequence of our choices?
⚹ (BETA)
Or are we forever playing a game of chancer gardener,
with the fate of the woods
hanging in the balance from a branch?
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CLOSE UP - A SINGLE NODE
on the Dymaxion Map where bread crumb sits.
⚹ (ALPHA)
"The present যেরকম (jerakam - Bengali for 'as' or 'like') a sheet spread out on Escher paper landscapes." - Hugh Kenner4
"What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence"5 - Wittgenstein
^1 Dymaxion Map: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_map
^2 "anticipatory design science": Buckminster Fuller: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckminster_Fuller#Design_science
^3 "We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims": Buckminster Fuller: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/13656-we-are-called-to-be-architects-of-the-future-not
^4 "The present like a sheet spread out on a vast landscape": A paraphrased quote from Hugh Kenner, reflecting on the non-linear nature of time and perception in modernist literature. Hugh Kenner: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Kenner
^5 Ludwig Wittgenstein: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Wittgenstein