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Global warming, nuclear proliferation, overpopulation, mass extinctions, megacities and mega slums, poverty, resource wars, terrorism, pandemic diseases, desertification, pollution — as the planet’s problems are growing more complex, human consciousness is being inundated with TV, the internet, films, and print media, which truncate our attention spans with sound bites, film clips, rapid montages, acronyms, icons, logos, encapsulations, dilutions, abridgements, simplistic fundamentalist ideologies, blips, and mental and emotional flimflam. At a time when we need to think and feel more broadly, more deeply, more subtlety, with multiple layers of meaning, we are collectively being hypnotized to be the shallowest consumers of the emptiest and cheapest manufactures, foods, feelings and thoughts. Collectively, we are becoming hungry ghosts, substanceless beings who are all teeth, mouth, and throat, but with no capacity for digestion. We are becoming depositories of the inconsequential , insatiable addicts for data, who cannot absorb wisdom.
A Monument of Wonders in counter flow to this deluge of abbreviation, relies on the technique of elaboration. In order to expand and deepen consciousness the verbal strategies of the work make use of embellishments, lists and litanies, labyrinths, mirrors, ornamentations and embellishments, multivalence, layerings, complications, diversions, involutions, hiatuses, entwinings, obfuscations, the massing of details, and any other technique that can be used to baffle, deepen, expand, and stimulate the imagination.
Through elaboration, A Monument of Wonders seeks to transform the consciousness of a few readers and listeners to create in consciousness an elite, but critical mass of those who are awakened enough to reclaim and restore the planet.