[UA] Re: Pants Meme

[Gaston Phillips]

> 
> [1] Hey, I just had an On Topic thought!  <collective gasp>  What if the
> "universal reboot" doesn't restart the world from the start.  Maybe the
> reason we can't find a lot of older schools of magic are because they
> never existed.  Everything starts from a postmodern perspective because
> that's the only one that will allow for the events that need to take
> place to take place.

Brings to mind the amazingly UA-able VALIS, by Phillip K. Dick.  I see
reboots as being rewrites, not do-overs.

Like... there was a reboot that erased the Roman Empire and caused it to be
sacked by the Goths.  previously, the Roman Empire had conquered the world,
leading to a Fascist Superstate that, by the twentieth century, was
all-powerful and amazingly corrupt, making something closer to SLA
Industries than anyone was comfortable with.  The Godhead was completed and
the Clergy rewrote history to fix that empire thing, and keep the world in a
state of political turmoil.

Another reboot, perhaps, ended the MesoAmerican blood cults from using their
extraterrestrial technologies to enslave the world into blood sacrifices for
their corn gods.

But artifacts from rewritten histories remain, somehow - probably because of
the Count, or a phenomenon much like his super-memory.  One can, therfore,
still find things from Mu, or Atlantis, or from the Hollow Earth.  Like
Plato realized, man remembers all his previous incarnations.  He just has to
be reminded of them.  It isn't learning, it's recollection.

So, did the Godhead get sick of thaumaturgical fuddy-duddies and Modern
Imperialist superstates and decide to rewrite reality with everything being
in flux, not just politics?  Did the rise of PostModernism, sparked by the
ascension of WECHBY, mark the dawn of the latest rewrite?

gaston


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