As we are so profoundly concerned with receiving the superficial benefits of some relationship or experience immediately, most of us have forgotten that all of our media is a form of compression.

The implications of this fact are, literally, explosive.

I will explain in detail, later. For the moment, allow me to suggest that we have forgotten the actual nature of media, which is to encode -triggers for experiences within ourselves- rather than -to deliver experience for the sake of stimulation-.

If you think about this carefully, you will realize that all the forms we currently use, including formal language, are modes of compression, and we have literally been taking the compressed ‘key’ for what it refers to… which is actually a -process of unpacking we must ourselves experience-. This process is -nothing like parsing- and is staggeringly metacognitive.

Written words, images, sounds… that we encode in media are not -meant to be received-. They are meant to act as catalysts for -local, personal decompression experiences-.

These are superior to but share peculiar features with dreams. They are not hallucinations. They are ‘deep learning’ experiences involving a trance-like state, which our confusion about the function and character of language, knowledge, and media deny us. And it is this that the adventurous seek in drug use, but cannot precisely name.

To be clear: we have -actually- mistaken the encoded compression ‘key’ for the experience it is supposed to trigger, and thus we no longer have the experiences that language was actually developed to support. The more we desire our machines to be able to understand language, the more we become like their feeble capacities in our own relationships with language: which is to say, we take the abstraction for the referent. This actively destroys intelligence and replaces it with the demand for analysis.

In every word there is a history of relations and experience-images of these relations which is so profound that a single exposure would seem to be an experience of impossible depth and wonder… and so too all statements. Our ancestors were aware of these matters because they experienced them. Since we cannot really imagine them, they remain largely hidden from us. But notice what happens when you become immersed in reading something that -triggers experience within you instead of parsing-. Whatever that experience may be… this is the kind of thing I speak of, and many (if not all) of us still experience this in epiphanic vignettes and reveries.

If you can learn to re-establish the older relationships with language (these are, indeed, amongst the arts of the poets) and also maintain your modern relationships, you will certainly have experiences of prodigy (and, perhaps madness) that will defy your wildest imaginings and expectations.

What we are doing with our intelligence is crawling. But it was, and I swear it, born for flight.

Decompress the tokens and discover the underlying grammars of knowledge and language…