J.J. Smith's "Numbers"

The greatest measure man has realized is time. With it, man has forgotten pain, numbed to centuries of injustice; with time, man has empowered himself, expanded himself, re-sought himself and rediscovered himself. Man has become mankind and redefined such becoming as humankind; through time, we have become fairer and intelligent;

through time, we will be much more.

Time exceeds me and, as such, I am also much more Then than I will realize now.

I

us

more

eternal

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This weekend, my editor has tasked me to give Why We Fall another look-through. More than a year has passed since my eyes last scanned its lines. Now, I see what Was. Now, I see what Will.

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all is relevant

(D.)

Moving forward past the outliers is not an option. Before I move ahead, however, allow me to summarize what has already been covered:

all is relevant and infinitely functional; therein lies the assertion that all is infinite. Nothing is ever not useful. But the outliers (the objects seemingly lacking function to the Multiverse, much less to anything of smaller proportions) gave me pause:

the outliers affected me

that is, in their own very unaffecting state. And I then moved to realize how some of the greatest moments of human history have occurred within the human mind. Perhaps, I thought, I am thinking too corporeally. Really, an outlier’s simply “being” will influence others to act;

the outlier’s functionality is in its ability to influence

just as our functionality, as humans, is to reason and label (really, only for our own selves, to make sense of our surroundings; the tree is never a “tree”; that is only what we impose upon it) and spread influence and give function to the “non-functioning” (ironically, we have created many obsoletes while Nature does not; unless we are considered as manifestations of Nature, as parts of the Whole; indeed, this argument is now coming full-circle.) The outliers are not obstacles to this argument. They are parts in supporting it. But allow us to backtrack to

all is infinite

as this assertion is so frustratingly simplistic and consumptive. It seems that if we are to put two opposing objects side-by-side, say, the works of Shakespeare and the works of Lil Wayne, a debate might appear to differentiate their levels of relevance to the Multiverse, that is, how much All may benefit from their works (as I defined functionality…”pertaining to the usefulness of a thing to any other thing; more specifically, functionality is the state of being useful to the Multiverse”…relevance shares a likeness in this definition.)

In fact, as I began Argument (C.) with a news quote on the truth of the NDAA bill and Obama’s stance on American rights, its relevancy was most likely brought into question.

What I am building to is how the Internet is a fantastic example of infinites and relevance. As I write this, the Internet grows. As people read this, people grow. As they write their own pieces, the Internet grows. Then, people. Then, Internet.

Oftentimes, a person may feel overwhelmed with the abundance of new music, new books, new films, new television programs; these are mediums through which a person may receive some version of solace. Such solace is needed as a result of feeling overwhelmed with the abundance of daily tasks, the utterly mundane of human routine. And the dilemma of the source for solace becoming overwhelming is a happenstance of the Internet. In fact, the Internet results in a functionality paradox.

- “Future Thought” from Argument (C.)

The very function of the Internet (to “connect”) is really severing a deeper connection between humans. And, even further, its overwhelming infiniteness may incite feelings of uselessness, of lacking function, in its users. Its gift to us (to create and share) may squash the uniqueness of creating and sharing. It may even squash the necessity of truth; as such with facebook and the news.

Unfortunately, any official news comes from newspapers and TV networks, mediums which lobbyists control in order to spin the facts. And any unofficial news comes from bloggers who aren’t necessarily being dishonest, but they aren’t checking the details before they post them either.

- Prelude to Argument (C.)

The Internet shows how people create their own standards of relevance.

Indeed, here I am arguing to myself how

all is relevant

all is infinite

but how can an emboldened statement of some self-entitled twenty-two-year-old have any relevancy of its own if the majority will make their own assumptions

despite how much effort I put into this

despite how many others predating my own existence died after having put infinitely more effort into this

despite how many relevant remarks I can list here to further substantiate my claims, my assumptions, my arguments,

my anger;

how can anything be relevant to anything unless the utter irrelevancy of It and All amounts to some cancelling, some amount of Nothing becoming Something in its own way of being too much of Nothing;

how can I rely on hope to carry Me onto others’ minds?

Indeed, am I not further from answering how All is relevant?

- Final Thought on Argument (A.)