27114 - Against barbarity
N. Lygeros
Translated from the Greek by Vicky Baklessi
He hadn’t realized in the beginning how important
the issue of memory was.
He hadn’t seen that it was a piece of Humanity within
intelligence even if this was artificial.
So memory needed protection.
And this could only be done with the use
of future memory.
Because there was an enemy who wanted to destroy it.
And that was barbarity.
It only wanted oblivion.
So that the present remains internal.
Forbidden was the evolution.
Because it changed the world.
And the system of barbarity wanted to control
everything and every human being.
Propositional calculus
The truth was not only the opposite of the lie
it was the struggle against oblivion.
Because without memory, the world would be the chaos
of barbarity and nothing else.
The hyperstructure lived with memory
It was its substance.
And that had touched him
in order to return because of need.
It was a necessary condition.
The problem was if it would be sufficient.
Which would be the victims?
Those which had memory.
The books.
The humans.
Both.
As for the machines, he saw it now.
The book was genuine memory.
And that could live only
if people read them.
It was a point of contact between them.
Capable to become a relation and even a link
if there was comprehension and subsequently invention.
So they were innocents who had to be justified
with their use.
Humans, if they couldn’t be resurrected
they too would become innocents.
And if they could, they had to reach the level
of the fighters so that they manage even after
death.
This is why people said: Life to you, remember him.
But who would remember a monster.
He didn’t answer.
He had to think about it.