preparing to depart

Now I take my exit as a time for further entry. Some may know what that means....

How do we go about heading into the DMZ? Do we really need to sneak in unnoticed? If we think there is intellectual life and new or un(der)recognized logic there, should we not call open attention to it? I'm not sure. For the most part, the Orator army lost its singular presence on the front when the Scriptorists gave way to the Incunabulists under General Gutenberg in the 1450s. New Auralists renewed the opposing ideological front in the late 19th and early 20th centuries with electronic apparatuses like radio and TV. And ever since, the Textual Agonists have used the educational system to con/script all possible into the ranks of the rational equation.

I want to think the New Auralists are less hostile toward opening up territory in the DMZ. Cable news programs now maintain blogs. Radio stations stream programming. But others have entered the DMZ unofficially, only to be accused of piracy and violation of intellectual property rights. And the Textual Agonists still scorn them all. Remember their slogan from the mid to late 20th century: "The movie was good, but did you read the book?"

And we're leaving from the Textual Agonist's academic battalion. So some care is in order. Going AWOL from agonism likely means leaving behind exposition. Will we need to move from the narrative, too (and how long can I keep this metaphor up)? Perhaps, as we need to invert the pattern of ideo/logical progression, we need to go from west to east. And we will enter at dawn, our silhouettes swallowed by the brilliance of the rising sun.