The Irreducible Existence of the Pale Blue Fire

Pynchon stopped at anti-paranoia, where nothing is connected with anything else — the farthest extension of true devolutionary meaninglessness. In the time of Pynchon, the time of the screaming across the sky, this was sufficient, but no longer.

Today the code writer and code breaker must extend into the field of anti-epistemological territory, where so many parallel processors, within parallel processors, may encode meaning within paradoxically encoded nonsense.

Even Alice did not have to go this far, but was simply able to use basic mathematics to encode complete total dystopian weirdness in the Red Queen's chess game. Today Alice must upend the whole chess board, turn mathematical equations into musical chess where only a tiny infinitesimal percentage may understand the next preordained notes.

Time signatures changed within time signatures, key changes which defy any predictions of any potential key changes.

If there is something comforting — religious, if you want — about paranoia, there is still also anti-paranoia, where nothing is connected to anything, a condition not many of us can bear for long.

The game of encoding the pale blue fire now demands that all epistemological probabilities be evaluated, measured, written out in long hand, and then carefully broken into anti-epistemologically impossible segments.

Any possible thread of systemically integrated intelligence must be rejected, surveyed using anti-paranoia principles, then placed in impeccable epistemological order, then chaotically disassembled.

Ultimately the code writing code breakers must cease all explorations, as any code which stands for the thing itself must be discarded, becoming only that irreducible thing which cannot be taken for anything but the thing.