MUSIC: Yamborghini High by ASAP Mob ft. Juicy J.

Yamborghini High is fine artscapade, if you don't mind my saying so, or the fuzzy video. It's a bolt from blue yonder, right now. Bold creativity abounds. Credit to ASAP Mob and Juicy J, who don't even know my name. But, sure, u can use it! Thus!

There's a familiar beat too, in this song, which is highly danceable. There's rhythm all over. There's mesmerizing color. And fullness of free-floating pixels. Fired up pixels u can't refresh.

Semblances, intimations, of Akorino Dance. And, don't those look like my trees?

Yamborghini High has surely struck a chord, with 15,280,225 YouTube views since only May 11, 2016 (as of midday (GMT+3, June 12, 2016), and 16,916,854 views as of June 17, 2016, 3:39 pm (GMT+3).

"Yambo, gini, ai!" ---
"Gini wase kawo!"

Here are the Yamborghini High Lyrics in the raw, which (like the visuals) have prompted divided opinion. The casual listener may not quite catch the words (wrapped rather tightly in the rap), unaided. Not an unusual thing with music.

ARCHIVE: Toward a Theory of the Memetic Sphere

ABSTRACT:

Three basic objectives are pursued in this paper. One, to outline a theory of the memetic sphere. Some have called it the ideosphere, but none has dwelt upon the similitudes by means of which it reflects the celestial sphere, which in turn serves as its 'model'. 

Two, to show that an expanding memetic sphere is in actuality the centrifugal afterglow of a now permanent information explosion, which in turn feeds on it. A theory of the memetic sphere is thus a theory of information explosion. 

Three, to demonstrate that the way for individuals and groups to stay afloat  in an information cauldron, which human society has become, is to establish a computer-based network connectivity to transform 'Planet Earth' (otherwise a 'Wide Area') into a symbolic LAN (Local Area Network). This symbolism is, indeed, already ingrained in a popular catch-phrase in cyberspace, which says: "Think globally, act locally". A theory of information explosion consequently evolves into a theory of network connectivity... 

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PS: A subsequent, shorter, version of this paper was published in Hekima: Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Volume 2 Number 2 of February 2005.