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.........^ can you  feel it?  behind things, inside ^.........
........^~     things, something is happening.      ~^........
.......^~*     something between nothing and the    *~^.......
......^~*^           collapse of reality.           ^*~^......
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....^~*^£# the  objects  themselves do  not change. #£^*~^....
...^~*^£## the  physicality of  a  person stays the ##£^*~^...
..^~*^£###                  same.                   ###£^*~^..
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..^~*^£### but  items  have   relations  with   one ###£^*~^..
...^~*^£## another,  and here  is  the  revolution. ##£^*~^...
....^~*^£#    the relationships congregate, the     #£^*~^....
.....^~*^£ networks become meshes, and they  spread £^*~^.....
......^~*^ out like  heat  nets  over  kale  farms. ^*~^......
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........^~ things  become part  of  bigger  things. ~^........
.........^ people  become  part of  bigger  actors. ^.........
.......... often too big to  be seen  - but perhaps ..........
.........^                 felt...                  ^.........
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.......^~* lets walk backwards  trough the  sludge! *~^.......
......^~*^ what's an animal?  a collective of cells ^*~^......
.....^~*^£        with a single mind (kinda)        £^*~^.....
....^~*^£# what's a cell?  actually  in  this sense #£^*~^....
...^~*^£## it's  a collective of cells  and  lesser ##£^*~^...
..^~*^£###  molecular machines ("proteins" et al)   ###£^*~^..
.^~*^£####           and other fragments            ####£^*~^.
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...^~*^£## what's  a  molecule?  just  a  bunch  of ##£^*~^...
....^~*^£# atoms bound (fey concept) together  by a #£^*~^....
.....^~*^£          set of ineffable rules          £^*~^.....
......^~*^ what's  an  atom?  (things  are  getting ^*~^......
.......^~* alien  at  this  point)  well  basically *~^.......
........^~               it's an "orb"              ~^........
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......^~*^ we're gonna lose ourselves in  it. maybe ^*~^......
.....^~*^£ we    have   been   for   some    while. £^*~^.....
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