Medium


The Medium's the Massage according to Mr. McLuhan
Maybe the reason's the medium's choosin
maximum transmission unit // The MTU's
the size of an information packet
The atom of this world without matter
Received or not // A one-bit patter
A beat repeats the expectation
Time's flow marks a packet's negation

A back and forth sequence of packets in banter
becomes what's known as protocol
But really is always
some kind of language constrained
An asymmetry is maintained
between generation and verification
motivating a simplification extending
exactly to the point preventing execution
of reasoning within the recipient
of transmitted information

Safety then from transformation
manipulation or unification
collision of being leaving
behind and changing the meaning
layered on every later stream
(as must any event true for
time to move or
to make its illusion of
us passing through it)

Islands of isolated neotony
the naive form a field of vulnerable prey
Handed-off to other captors usually
Information gatekeepers prefigure society

Lost transmissions pass as
disconnections to the past
A beat repeats the expectation
Time's flow marks a packet's negation
The trace of age its information