# alternative republic of bob intro if researchers aren't careful and noclip out of immediate capitalist reality / realism they may end up in the sokalled republic of bob or at least on the outskirts that is the realtime virtual internets reimagined and treated as an imaginary alternative near future lifestyle a horizon of fictional impossibility whose true extent and heterogeneous scope cannot in principle be precisely defined in advance far more in here than the stink of office space carpet moist with ex employee sweat as they program software to alphabetize office stationary purchase orders for nine hours a day at minimum non livable industry slave wages the ironic low key madness of useless fungal and time faded sickly yellow post stuck around old willfully retro crt monitors the unceasing background buzz of garish fluorescent social media now with approximately seven hundred thousand cubic miles of beautiful semi arid high desert virtual plains to explore feel free to stay a while write a few scene reports // [[republic of bob contents | imaginary pastime republic of bob]]