Ant World (5)
Painting and Story by Lehan Winifred Ramsay
Computer networks are ant networks. Computers are comprised of a trillion ants, all doing their business together. China is an ant country. Ants work well when they work together. Wikileaks uses the power of an ant; one ant to challenge a system. That one ant merely happens to know where the off switch is, and becoming irritated by the misuse of his own function determines to use it. It stands to reason that one well-placed and dissatisfied ant is now capable of such powerful activity, because we have followed the ants into their world but we meddle more than they. It only takes one ant to notice a weakness. DON’T DO THAT! the leader might say. They might know that the switch shouldn’t be toyed with. But they cannot be aware of how big that switch is going to make things. Because we don’t know. We are not in our world any more. We are in Ant World. No one person, no group of people make a wikileaks happen. It’s beyond the control of we. Our mobile phones, our cars, our refrigerators come now with computers, and computers, when they meet up in the Ant World, are seven degrees away from our nuclear power plants and our military facilities. Ant World. Wikileaks provides us with a new window into Ant World. If we are smart, we will be thinking. How is the wikileaks effect going to spontaneously manifest itself in our Ant World? We could be in for a bumpy ride.
Apologies to Lehan, this should have been published prior to Between Two Worlds
Window Dresser's Arms, Pig & Whistle 
Atomou twice, and, twice as good!
Yes, ants. Funny buggers, invade your sugar jar, or invade your home. their cousins, the termites, so small and insignificant, yet chew through half a house in a few weeks.
We should follow their example.
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Just let me know where the sugar jar is, M, and I’ll be there.
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You mean we should eat our houses??
😉
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Bugger!
Sorry about my stuttering, folks!
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Again, some excellent observations, Lehan; and one that locates your thoughts to current issues. We are, indeed, in “Ant World” in more ways than one.
An infinity of planets, stars and moon in the universe, makes earth no more than a minuscule fraction of it all and upon this little fraction,nearly 7 billion humans, one only of an infinity of life forms upon it, yet, each of us acts as if we are the maker of this universe and when we stuff up, we blame some fantasy, called God!
I like those colours: bright, yet as if playing in the same symphonic orchestra as the less bright ones. Strativarii with penny whistles!
Lovely, thanks enormously.
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When I struggled to change my situation and didn’t succeed, I felt complete disbelief. Not at the first attempt, but intermittently. How could this not have an effect? How could that not have an effect? I completely understand that after a few of these it feels like a united defence, and should I be looking for a name for that it could be God. I think it’s more likely to be that I am not after all at the centre of my world. But rather quite an irrelevant being. Being irreverant didn’t help either I think.
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It’s interesting too for me to consider that although we carry these worlds with us we might not be so important to them. Could our worlds and our lives be parasitic, with us as some kind of worker slave for them?
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Again, some excellent observations, Lehan; and one that locates your thoughts to current issues. We are, indeed, in “Ant World” in more ways than one.
An infinity of planets, stars and moon in the universe, makes earth no more than a minuscule fraction of it all and upon this little fraction,nearly 7 billion humans, one only of an infinity of life forms upon it, yet, each of us acts as if we are the maker of this universe and when we stuff up, we blame some fantasy, called God!
I like those colours: bright, yest as if playing in the same symphonic orchestra as the less bright ones. Strativarii with penny whistles!
Lovely, thanks enormously.
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