By Gemma Cleanslate
I have been working as a ranger on the playa at Burn2 for several weeks now
, helping builders get settled and assisting with any problems. Since the gates
opened to the public I have been even more busy, too busy to write much and
left that to the other reporters. One build that has intrigued me for weeks ,and
I find myself going back to it over and over is that of Ub Yifu in the sim Frog
Pond. Cargo Cult is the theme of the Burn2 in real life and in SL this year. But
this is a unique interpretation from many of the others on the playa. The name
of the plot and the build is “Flesh Dreams.” For a while I had a hard time
deciphering the meaning of it all.
The description by Ub finally gave me the
meaning, “My vision of the cargo cult but from another point of view..... Here
on Earth in 3247 humankind is no more than a dream in survivors mind: the
robots we built. Humans have been gone a very long time, and our machines
survived as they could without us. But, now wishing for our return, they build
human-like figures with the rare memory they have of us to convince their
creators to come back.” 
The sad machines lie in a set of destruction in the
are future as you can see. You can become part of their dreams by finding a
place to sit . The strange robots circle the human creature they are trying to
create. The devestation all around shows the remnants of our demise. I wonder
why we are gone? So many images for thought. Be sure to visit this amazing build in Frog Pond sim on the playa. SLURL: http://maps.secondlife.com/
Gemma Cleanslate
Where did the humans go? Hopefully it was something like the Sim Earth game in the early 90s, in which to "win," the planet's civilization becomes so advanced, it declares its homeworld a nature preserve and leaves. But they don't always take all their robots with them ...
ReplyDeleteThank you for that great article :) Regarding humans in the far future we know that our survival lies in space cause ressources on earth are not infinite.
ReplyDeleteHopefully we will have the technology to colonize space at that time ;)
Ub Yifu