SILICON HOPE
By Monica Moran 2025
In 1999 one could easily discuss critical theory in a review of Brendan Fraser's then new release, The Mummy. The earliest biographical intro post UCLA biomed library. Fraser was appropriate and totally autoerotic worthy; however critical analysis took priority over sexual exchanges or unstated implications.
No such critical analysis was permitted by unshielded developers. By 2023 we occupied "no space" which quickly translated to “no pay” at the abandoned Smithsonian-like venue that was being fashioned into a parking lot free-for-all epic. But in early 2021, I peered over the venue’s soaring second level (reserved for minors who found themselves at an equivalent to Wendover, Nevada), an utter dirt road that led to the Utah border; two casinos and a makeshift housing section.
He was exceptionally tall. A selfie safeguard installed by the Obama administration? "What in the world?" I didn't believe it, but looked over the guardrail a second time. It was 7am, he was wearing a dirty T-shirt and was circling the slots with a pint of beer. He was once considered the Twin Peaks-proof FBI director. It was the MSNBC friendly persona and prolific best selling author of the Apple lawsuit. It had to be him. Here? Wearing that? I stood and observed him from afar.
Two years later his presence made perfect sense. A long epic, biodegradable time sample and a Marvel event launcher for minors would be guess number one. A rebranded FBI building which harbored heavy equipment left behind and live streaming unlimited for the janitorial staff with a basic android, would be guess number two. I learned quickly to turn off my now Motorola whenever I entered the building. My only real connection to the epic saga which loomed below (in a social distancing, once in a lifetime sighting), was the Smithsonian. After leaving New York behind, not without baggage. Namely Josh Smith, the less heroic version of the Marvel brand.
Josh had emerged overnight as a critical phenomenon in 2005. His work appeared on the cover of Art in America and his work was acquired by every permanent collection from MOMA to the Whitney. His sensational career echoed generative AI.
My once stellar connections were retired along with my practice of art leaving me to gladly vacuum dirty data off of the abandoned federal building's floor. (I called it “the pipeline”). The Smithsonian's over involved art committee left an empty shell of a practice behind along with other devotees and faiths of similar structure.
I gazed at the best selling author from the mezzanine above next to the Circus Circus food court. "A press release isn't journalism," I had explained my media related activities in New York to other journalism majors at UNR the day before. I hoped to slide by unnoticed and reel worthy, getting past the new, low ecosystem at the university.
They were intent on reparenting grown adults who had a full day of activities to tend to at Circus Circus. Idle bystanders and perfect strangers, dangerous sex industry workers, a bizarre and stressful chain to encounter. Still, his elite presence seemed highly displaced that morning.
Full spectrum heavies were nothing new to CBS broadcasting (KTVN). They involved traditional commitments and were easily identified by insiders to behavioral science. Environmental factors were of extreme influence. The population occupancy could take over the abandoned infrastructure and easily confuse a newcomer to the state, city, school building or regularly scheduled programming.
The best example of that type of institutional displacement to my mind was the Hillary Clinton email scandal. Post Benghazi. Officials had no knowledge of or grassed their way through an abandoned institutional vehicle as the then secretary of state had to decipher the dirty data, several squatters later at the department of defense.
The research clearly placed an emphasis on industrial complexes such as SpaceX. Their interests are clear to most in that they are focused on restrictions and enforcement.
And that was essentially Silicon Valley. The web had given its programmers a front man or two post Steve Jobs. But Amazon is still selling cyber security. Prime is an institutional investor.
"It must be painful," I thought, "to be an Avenger and have people ask, 'what is that’”? It almost makes you glad to have failed.
I continued to fail upward.
The decision to directly send in a heavy hitter, full spectrum, observably was well engineered into the existing institutional frameworks. How and why they were implemented exceeded mere personal interaction. Evidence based research included biometric interaction which warranted at least the basics of the MCAT. Isolation, inappropriate relationships and a lack of social buffers were significant factors. Coupled with excessive expectations in the face of disappointment as a coping mechanism. Left with little to no crisis support. Among this particular region the interactions themselves were cited repeatedly by responding researchers online as interactivity.
This specific type of startup was poorly designed with an excessive use of force. "Overkill" by traditional, front man standards.
An excerpt from Lockheed Martin device descriptions were as follows:
AC-130J Ghostrider entering service. Close air support roles include supporting ground troops, escorting convoys, and urban operations. Air-interdiction missions are conducted against planned targets and targets of opportunity. Force-protection.
The private sector was capable of a fact checking requirement presented within the location. And data left behind in New York provided additional opportunities for matching, eliminating or guessing.
The data research remained intent on including the Marvel cast long after any ratings interest in presentations of the original Focus Features. The realization and documentation of the actual use of the sector's products was well suited for fact checking if and only if one refused to speculate beyond the living conditions as they were.
The source of the documents remained steadfast in his knowledge that the features were designed from an excerpt of the Lockheed Martin device descriptions.
Any data collection or written submissions were well protected from paranoid delusions of plagiarism. The data was recycled and nothing in the environmental presentation was new or unknown to the networks. A journalist only represents facts. That was all, according to the school.
With regard to chaining or featured leadership, the most a journalist could hope for the reader was a sense of clarity in an illogical and dangerous developmental scheme.