Phaedrus II: The Last Judgement of Thamus
by Azly Rahman
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Men will never be free until a last aristocrat is strangled with a entrails of a last priest.
-- Denis Diderot, French Enlightenment thinker
There was non in between a myriads of group that existed who would pity or support me; as well as should we feel kindness towards my enemies? No: from that moment we declared secure war against a species, and, more than all, against him who had shaped me as well as sent me onward to this insupportable misery.
-- 'Frankenstein' by Mary Shelley-Wollstonecraft
Sometime ago, after reading Plato's narration of a review in between King Thamus as well as a contriver Theuth connected with a stroke of brand brand brand new technologies upon society, after reading media guru Neil Postman's work Technopoly, as well as after low reflection upon a idea of a Luddites (a transformation that "raged against a machine" during a Industrial Revolution), we penned verses that we find befitting to honour Malaysian bloggers in their onward impetus towards creating a spook that will haunt a state-owned imitation media.
Here it goes:
P H A E D R U S II
The Last Judgement of Thamus
Circa A.D. 2020
Lines stoical near a banks of Hudson River, New York city
by Azly Rahman
Background notes: They contend that there dwelt at Naucratis in Egypt a single of a aged gods of that country, to whom a bird they call Ibis was sacred, as well as a name of a God himself was Theuth. Among his inventions were number as well as calculation . . . and, above all, writing. . . . To [the king, Thamus] came Theuth as well as exhibited his inventions . . . when it came to writing, Theuth declared: "There is an accomplishment, my lord a kind, that will urge both a knowledge as well as a mentory of a Egyptians. we have detected a certain receipt for memory as we! ll as wi sdom." "Theuth, my manuscript of inventors," repl! ied a king, "the precursor of an art is not a most appropriate decider of a great or mistreat that will accumulate to those who practise it. . . . Those who acquire [writing] will stop to use their memory as well as become forgetful. . . . What we have detected is a receipt for recollection, not for memory . . . ( Phaedrus, 95-96)
And it was in a year 2020
In a not-too-distant cybercity
As Socrates' narratives upon cybertechnology
Laments King Thamus's concern for a fate of academies
And Theuth my contriver standard excellence
What contend we connected with tutorial excellence?
Of a methods as well as beliefs of teaching
Brought about by brand brand brand new technologies of communicating?
O' Thamus, Wise King of Cyberjaya
Indeed a young kids will bear Karma
Of a single flushed with Dharma
Which will move us all to Moksha
Karma is Rebirth
Dharma is Devotion as well as Duty
And Moksha is art of being a single with Creation
Of that tutorial use will pretence a brand brand brand new reality
This invention called blogging
Of that for many ages we have waited so patiently
Will transform a meaning of Reality
as well as Democracy
as it marries Virtuality
More than what imitation media has guaranteed
O' wise King Thamus
We have been witnessing a genocide of Papyrus
the passing of Gutenberg legacy
As we declare a bieing born of PERSONACRACY
deeply personalized form of postmodern democracy
In a luminosity of anarchy
To be artistic with a media of blogging
By way of this beliefs called PERSONACRACY,
O' King
Our children, a loyal strain of democracy they will sing
Of that a clergyman will die a delayed death
Like a initial clergyman Socrates
whose fate was a choice he once had
Our young kids will be Brahma, Shiva, as well as Vishnu
The Creator, Destroyer, as well as a One who Renews
Our young kids will have story as well as! create Knowledge
Destroy paradigms
and similar to Vishnu, safety what is ! aged as well as what is new
They will be Renaissance group as well as women
In their mind neural connections will be made,
synapses will be woven
And a boundaries of a Real as well as a Imagined we can no longer ascertain
In this onward impetus towards Virtuality
Classrooms will stop to exist nor as well a concept of teaching
The sage of Russia Illich
will be singing
In honor of this day when preparation equates to deschooling
O' Thamus wise woman monarch of Cyberjaya
The days wherein authorities order capital cities
Will be left with a advent of my invention called blogging
Pedagogy will be transposed with METAPHYSICAL TRANSITION THEORIES
And Plato's academy will be history
Buried underneath a magnificence of blogging
Gone will be a idea of faculties
In their place will emerge knowledge patterned similar to fractal geometries
And Chaos will be a order of a day
And Complexity will be aristocrat of pedagogies
For a sage Mandelbrott did once spoke
Of a patterns inherent in knowledge as well as wisdom
O' Theuth my kingdom's most honored inventor,
What contend we of a blogger's stroke upon a teacher?
One who binds a pass to any civilization's treasure
And who guards a beliefs of a moral character?
Wise King Thamus,
this is my conjecture:
My invention is Frankensteinish in nature
Aren't we already at a finish of history?
Wherein a Knower as well as a Known has no longer a boundary?
This record will destroy authorities
Including values we ensure with jealousy
Slain similar to a dragon in Beowulf's story
Buried with Socrates as well as Dante Alighieri
A serve elaboration connected with a genocide of authority:
O' King, we call this an Age of Subalternity
In that we will declare a emergence of PERSONACRACY
Of that with a help of blogging,
a child constructs his customized chronicle of democracy
!
O' T heuth Master Inventor
Yours is a strain of conjectures
For, can we as a creator
Be a decider o! f what g ood as well as bad
blogging will move into a future?
My greatest apologies
Wisest of all Kings
Do we not remember that we have been in a year 2020?
In that kingdoms have been crushed
under a weight of technologies of practical realities?
And we dear aristocrat - have been we not already ancient history?
You as well as your dominion destroyed by technologies of Virtuality?
-- Denis Diderot, French Enlightenment thinker
There was non in between a myriads of group that existed who would pity or support me; as well as should we feel kindness towards my enemies? No: from that moment we declared secure war against a species, and, more than all, against him who had shaped me as well as sent me onward to this insupportable misery.
-- 'Frankenstein' by Mary Shelley-Wollstonecraft
Sometime ago, after reading Plato's narration of a review in between King Thamus as well as a contriver Theuth connected with a stroke of brand brand brand new technologies upon society, after reading media guru Neil Postman's work Technopoly, as well as after low reflection upon a idea of a Luddites (a transformation that "raged against a machine" during a Industrial Revolution), we penned verses that we find befitting to honour Malaysian bloggers in their onward impetus towards creating a spook that will haunt a state-owned imitation media.
Here it goes:
P H A E D R U S II
The Last Judgement of Thamus
Circa A.D. 2020
Lines stoical near a banks of Hudson River, New York city
by Azly Rahman
Background notes: They contend that there dwelt at Naucratis in Egypt a single of a aged gods of that country, to whom a bird they call Ibis was sacred, as well as a name of a God himself was Theuth. Among his inventions were number as well as calculation . . . and, above all, writing. . . . To [the king, Thamus] came Theuth as well as exhibited his inventions . . . when it came to writing, Theuth declared: "There is an accomplishment, my lord a kind, that will urge both a knowledge as well as a mentory of a Egyptians. we have detected a certain receipt for memory as we! ll as wi sdom." "Theuth, my manuscript of inventors," repl! ied a king, "the precursor of an art is not a most appropriate decider of a great or mistreat that will accumulate to those who practise it. . . . Those who acquire [writing] will stop to use their memory as well as become forgetful. . . . What we have detected is a receipt for recollection, not for memory . . . ( Phaedrus, 95-96)
And it was in a year 2020
In a not-too-distant cybercity
As Socrates' narratives upon cybertechnology
Laments King Thamus's concern for a fate of academies
And Theuth my contriver standard excellence
What contend we connected with tutorial excellence?
Of a methods as well as beliefs of teaching
Brought about by brand brand brand new technologies of communicating?
O' Thamus, Wise King of Cyberjaya
Indeed a young kids will bear Karma
Of a single flushed with Dharma
Which will move us all to Moksha
Karma is Rebirth
Dharma is Devotion as well as Duty
And Moksha is art of being a single with Creation
Of that tutorial use will pretence a brand brand brand new reality
This invention called blogging
Of that for many ages we have waited so patiently
Will transform a meaning of Reality
as well as Democracy
as it marries Virtuality
More than what imitation media has guaranteed
O' wise King Thamus
We have been witnessing a genocide of Papyrus
the passing of Gutenberg legacy
As we declare a bieing born of PERSONACRACY
deeply personalized form of postmodern democracy
In a luminosity of anarchy
To be artistic with a media of blogging
By way of this beliefs called PERSONACRACY,
O' King
Our children, a loyal strain of democracy they will sing
Of that a clergyman will die a delayed death
Like a initial clergyman Socrates
whose fate was a choice he once had
Our young kids will be Brahma, Shiva, as well as Vishnu
The Creator, Destroyer, as well as a One who Renews
Our young kids will have story as well as! create Knowledge
Destroy paradigms
and similar to Vishnu, safety what is ! aged as well as what is new
They will be Renaissance group as well as women
In their mind neural connections will be made,
synapses will be woven
And a boundaries of a Real as well as a Imagined we can no longer ascertain
In this onward impetus towards Virtuality
Classrooms will stop to exist nor as well a concept of teaching
The sage of Russia Illich
will be singing
In honor of this day when preparation equates to deschooling
O' Thamus wise woman monarch of Cyberjaya
The days wherein authorities order capital cities
Will be left with a advent of my invention called blogging
Pedagogy will be transposed with METAPHYSICAL TRANSITION THEORIES
And Plato's academy will be history
Buried underneath a magnificence of blogging
Gone will be a idea of faculties
In their place will emerge knowledge patterned similar to fractal geometries
And Chaos will be a order of a day
And Complexity will be aristocrat of pedagogies
For a sage Mandelbrott did once spoke
Of a patterns inherent in knowledge as well as wisdom
O' Theuth my kingdom's most honored inventor,
What contend we of a blogger's stroke upon a teacher?
One who binds a pass to any civilization's treasure
And who guards a beliefs of a moral character?
Wise King Thamus,
this is my conjecture:
My invention is Frankensteinish in nature
Aren't we already at a finish of history?
Wherein a Knower as well as a Known has no longer a boundary?
This record will destroy authorities
Including values we ensure with jealousy
Slain similar to a dragon in Beowulf's story
Buried with Socrates as well as Dante Alighieri
A serve elaboration connected with a genocide of authority:
O' King, we call this an Age of Subalternity
In that we will declare a emergence of PERSONACRACY
Of that with a help of blogging,
a child constructs his customized chronicle of democracy
!
O' T heuth Master Inventor
Yours is a strain of conjectures
For, can we as a creator
Be a decider o! f what g ood as well as bad
blogging will move into a future?
My greatest apologies
Wisest of all Kings
Do we not remember that we have been in a year 2020?
In that kingdoms have been crushed
under a weight of technologies of practical realities?
And we dear aristocrat - have been we not already ancient history?
You as well as your dominion destroyed by technologies of Virtuality?
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