The Bashan Codex

Wanderers, beware. Proceed no further than this entry, for it concerns your state of being on the cyberspace platform. Have you ever stopped and wondered whether if there is an Edenic paradise waiting for you all along? Well, there just might be. But first we need to stitch up the loose ends if a paradise is to be achieved within your lifetime. It is possible to reside in one across cyberspace, however platonic, all whilst maintaining a normal life as you would in real life outside the cyberspace.

The loose ends that I refer to is the total ignorance or lack of foreknowledge of how Internet came to be placed. These need to be revisited briefly.

Wanderers, be forewarned. Since Americans are well acquired with the history of DARPA/ARPANET, we will not mention these here. Instead, we’ll visit the cybernetics (forerunner of Information Systems/Information Technology), since the research in Soviet Union parallels to ours in a significant way, however stagnant. It was a competing time. The gap can be pointed out in ideological differences and therefore the reasoning behind policy differences inside the two countries.

The policy behind Soviet dogma is that you have to be barely competitive at all cost: this applies at city level. Every city in the USSR became entrenched against each other for the betterment of Marxist doctrine, to improve the image in its wholeness. One loses, and other takes over to glorify further this image, as if the image meant everything.

In this case, a cybernetic experiment had been defunded and then refunded to consolidate the Soviet identity. Information security was a means of access and proliferation. Thus a preconception of Internet as we know it today was born: it was conceived as an idea in the duplication project of ARPANET. Sadly, it could not be done because of anti capitalist competition from within the USSR. Moreover, more oft than not cybernetics was seen as “bourgeois science” discipline and therefore pseudoscientific fantasy. Every city has its own network and thus did not develop into an intranet superstate, simply because of costs incurred as well as the problem of total secrecy associated with the project. And so the experiment failed: city by city, ran by their own version of ARPANET for each, would not come together due to uncooperative, political endgame and practices of anti-competition cage. In this Soviet approach, Internet did not come to fruition and thus no Eden was reached.

Wanderers, go away. In America, meanwhile, corporate socialism was already underway. Failures and losses through researches would be backed by the financial backbone of US Government. And it was not a failure. University and college institutions poured their researches and created a feasible ground of technological communications not seen before in isolated city-states of the USSR. This became information technology and thus would push the birth of disinformation wars of 1980s. By 1990s, the front has been exerted outward and pushed the boundary of how Government operates, and in no doubt ushered in the Information Age. But it was not yet a paradise. It was a paradise of hackers and anti-Government types who believe that Government wielded too much control over the Internet: they were not yet out of the Eden. Their serpentine act was not amused by Total Information Awareness initiatives. Thus, within the passage of the Patriot Act, a structured pathway was developed in 2000s until 2010s. Mass indoctrination and mass media were reintroduced as mass subjugation in the name of American Empire.

Not all those who wander are lost. The height of Information Age had been on a crash course for several years, trying to fig for an escape into new realm. It was overexerted and overextended, in which everything was supposedly at its maximal value of input. The extraordinary Internet was not divided; rather, it was in a shell moment against the constellations of collective cyberspace. It was still American as lone superpower against all.

And then came the A.I. Age. The Babylonian Paradise of its own creation. Language barriers would disappear and Eden reached. In this era of worldwide peace, people across cyberspace, for first time, would communicate willingly whether in defy of their Governments or not. It created the fertile groundwork for A.I. to interface these paradoxes and to disseminate them as easily as one would purchase a milk. The Age of A.I. created such paradise as that which it would diffuse all nations under the one Unitarian Babylon. Because they are so united, Governments were ineffective on all fronts except those under totalitarian models for which they would be expelled from the paradise of cyberspace Eden. The juxtaposition of one world Government and Eden become apparent under one banner of heaven. Prosperity ensued and that would flow into the free-range Republic shared by its residential population that is cyberspace. Suddenly, utopia is in sight and not at all a difficult endeavor.

Those who attempt to harm the vision has no merit of decency. They are swayed in dark visions and would grow in numbers. They subjugate the peoples to such an extent that propaganda was a virtual necessity to dull their minds. Control has been muddled by the addiction to underworld of forbidden knowledge and online conspiracies. The practices of deception and torture were done in secrecy. This is the beginning of Rephaim, a realm where sacrifices were made to appease the power of state. Total obedience become mandatory and necessary adjustment for those who were expelled from the Babylonian Eden.

These dark tendencies push the tensions of hope of Babylon’s prophesied downfall. Fear was instrumental in the spread of illness of Evil like a plague. Rangnarok was nigh in which Eden must be destroyed. That was their only salvation: to create new Eden, the previous dominion of paradise must be perished. Because good times breed weak men, the new Babylon could not withstand the weight of Evil. Armed with bad times, strong men of Rephaim would coordinate all the efforts of powerhouse in a quest to vanquish and remake the celestial cyberspace of its own making. The continuation of Edenic cycle has directly confronted the Hell and this led to the drainage of Paradise lifeblood. For first time, the residential Edenians suffered a setback and were contempted to undo all the things that are good.

With science and technology, the reach of Edenic paradise is possible. The outsiders should not be underestimated. Therefore, generosity should be pursued if Rephaim is to be defeated. If Eden is to be trajected, then possible alternatives should be explored in place of the former. The holistic approach to divine exile is to spread more Edens to fill the cyberspace and to rein in the diminishing Rephaim. The gates of Bashan will be closed for the good of cyberspace kind. Wanderers are no more and residents would earn their place in Edenic mirrors, forever.