4 March 2007

I am not an exceptional writer.  “Extraordinary” escapes me.  What I am and all I can claim to be is phenomenological subjectivity.  At every moment, in every second, I AM.  And that is all I need to be.  This being said, I must disclose that I will tend to be rather brutal, and if I offend, it is for a purpose.  To this point, hyphenation is very pivotal to me and my vision of the real-imagined / electronic-virtual world that is now. 

The significance of the concept is in its necessity.  There exists the need for a language that accurately reflects, expresses, captures, and frames the new present and this need – this language – is altogether too absent in its omnipresence.  Indeed, hyphenation exists everywhere, and without language to name it – to identify it – it itself remains hyphenated in virtuality.  This is the internal hyphenation paradox: a language without recognition and a reality without acknowledgment.

At its zenith it is absolute potentiality.  At its nadir it is self-deception - a profound obscurity -  that obviates the cause of man for nature.  Pascal’s wager dares us to believe.  Mine is a secular gamble: to see the world, the present, the real, and the virtual as they are and to utilize a language that captures it all accurately.  To realize the potential is not just in the reality, but within our self, our actions, our behavior, and our motives.  We must guide the hand to pen to enter the portal to a new world just as we must activate the connecting dash to realize the potential just waiting to erupt.  We are sitting atop a powder keg that can wait no longer.   Just as the earth’s core is about to reverse its magnetic field any minute now, we are about to catalyze praxis into idea and effect potential. 

This is but a glimpse of why hyphenation is so important to me, the rest will come with empirical support and example that abounds to be written.  So little time and so little patience, but I stand to deliver…