Luddite Futurist

Mark Gordon Brown on Oct 18, 2009

Tags: dragonfly, farming, Futurists, immortality, Kurzweil, Luddite, Marky 3000, moog, poem, Poetry, ray, synthesizer

If you don’t know what a Luddite is, look it up. This poem formed in my mind weeks ago, I finally took the time to write it down. Poetry does not have to rhyme.

Luddite futurists

chasing after moths

and flames.

The garden is escapable.

The garden is retrievable.

Luddite futurists

chasing after dragonflies

and cures,

snake oil or real.

A cure for death.

A cure for pain.

photo by author

One morning while getting ready to go to work I began to think about synthesizers. I thought about Robert Moog the creator of the Moog Synthesizer and then I started thinking about the Kurzweil Synthesizer and Ray Kurzweil. That lead me to think about Ray’s desire for immortality and this poem, which I wrote down quickly. After that I helped my wife and people delivering hay to our farm lift a few bales and headed off to work.

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Lostash on Oct 18, 2009
I’m not sure I get the connection with the Luddites from the poem? Maybe you need some machines though to help with the hay?
ken bultman on Oct 18, 2009
Yeah, the Moog put a few musicians out of work. I always left the place early when I knew hay was going to be delivered.
Mark Gordon Brown on Oct 18, 2009
Lostash,
The luddite reference has to do with Ray Kurzweil using rather luddite and pedestrian means to stay alive long enough until more futurist means of immortality are invented. IE Nutrition.

Ken I have a Moog and if people would use them for sounds that other instruments can not make and leave the Viola playing to a Violist then things would be okay and maybe music would progress. The luddite mindset among synth players and keyboardists makes me mad. What do I expect when most songs are still 4/4 beat and 145 chord progressions. lol
julianhw on Oct 18, 2009
Too true, a poem does not have to rhyme – but it does have to have rhythm – like yours -especially if it is syncopated. Nice!
Randy Bernat on Oct 20, 2009
Funny. I am laughing my ass off.
RS Wing on Apr 13, 2010
Great write and superbly elegant capture on film. Awesome Pic!

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