[UA] Re: Pants Meme

[Royal Minister of Stuff]

--- Gaston Phillips <gaston at math.sunysb.edu> wrote:
(responding to:)
>> 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.
> 
<snip V.A.L.I.S. plot)
> 
> 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.


I like the idea of one continuous history which keeps
popping its collective past into new shapes.  I would
go so far as to say that the Godhead reincarnates a
lot more often than people would suspect.  It isn't a
thousand-year cycle, it's much shorter.  Maybe once a
century or even more frequently.  That way you could
have remnants of the great Steampunk empire showing up
along with crashed 50s martians and space nazi
aerojags.  It would be kind of like a nice or
pre-meditated version of Realiy Quakes.

=====
-- Rp Bowman, Royal Minister of Stuff
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