I don't really think, on some fundamental level, that software can affect hardware. The vague and hesitant stammerings of linguistic expression aren't embedding themselves on reality and I should get a job in construction. Carpentry. Make something real. Maybe this is why I've done so badly at writing and art as career options. Because I don't really believe in them. I've lost my faith.

But this is an excuse, this is crazy and stupid because the evidence is all around us; you can get a text message and it can break your heart. It can send you to bed for the rest of the day. You can write a computer program and change the lives of millions of people. These programs consist of code, of information, of language.

Maybe the problem is that now the dialog is taking place at a higher organizational level and those of us who are experts with words, this dinosaur language, incapable of talking to machines the way C++ does or to humans the way films do, are dealing with a substrate of communicative simplicity akin to single-celled organisms, or invertebrates, in a world populated by cetaceans and gods. We are magickally obsolete.

and maybe that's why magick is over as we've known it, why it's the modern purview of basement-dwelling comic-book nerds: because those that know its true implications have manned up and learned to program computers already. Enough of this monkeying about with the tetragrammaton, we're dealing with 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01110010 01100101 01100001 01101100 00100000 01101110 01100001 01101101 01100101 00100000 01101111 01100110 00100000 01000111 01101111 01100100 these days.