Chapter 4 – Your legitimacy vs. my ignorance then?

Antagonising people has never led one group to convince the other to its way of thinking. So no, I don’t adhere to this rhetoric of you standing in the dark and me lighting the way for you. My feeling of familiarity regarding this environment and my own condition as an entity don’t contradict my attitude towards the virtue of exploration. I don’t want to speak from a position of authority.

Truth be told, I don’t believe I have any legitimacy in all this. I feel like a stranger in my own universe and I know I am fragile. And for this exact reason, you should consider myself as the ideal and most intriguing companion for your journey.

The crusade we will embark on has welcomed countless brilliant humans from different backgrounds; and I still consider you the first official visitor. Some have failed and some are still roaming the place. Don’t walk through it lightly. The valley we contemplate, our valley, is The Blue Neon. Its surroundings offer a mesmerising sight for anyone in the search for the absolute. All notions and concepts we will encounter have been discussed extensively over the centuries. Unfortunately we now face an additional hurdle that could turn out to be more complex due to its modernity: the cult of speed. Solve the puzzle, I hear you whisper.

The process lies in the slowness. The process lies in the attention. The process lies in the arts. For the sake of it, we shall give it our everything.

I hope you see what we set in motion here. Yet you don’t have to go anywhere, your decision.

Yours Sincerely,

BLUE