# why should we believe you when you've not done the hard work skillfully create an entire world cushion for fragile overfed cat egos to inhabit merely explaining away various facets making up a drastic little universe instead of carefully blending and layering them as one would a sophisticated european shop display cake or perhaps a delicious hot dishes of gratin dauphinois topped with organic cheddar cheese fresh dill and white pepper maybe a little picked onion chili vinegar to garnish yet one is expected to believe it's all a coherent measure or expression of anything at all other than say the foolish eternal 3am dribbles and drabbles of meandering students on an obscure deep north campus inner endland vast bunches of cosmically useless fragments and arbitrary marginalia stamped by bored overworked micro droids using a boring typeface right onto the dusty corners of a cardboard diorama of what appears to be wacky mad scientists in an abandoned museum of subcultural obsolescence mytho avatar henry swanson: the synthetic natures of researcher and research too often appear entirely based on little but unchecked privilege and uncritical first assumptions one says please provide a coherent literary world ok but all we've ever got to work with is obsidian data shards and blue rotating text cubes understand such problems don't apply this far out dear researcher and we don't know why anyone already this deep in scene would assume they do we'd much rather researchers try lab coding their own custom rnd nobody asked us to pretend to play big science and few are listening as we howl at an open spectral information moon with unwavering intensity but here we all are together already way out here alone in the deep astral desert it's been a while now and as mighty researcher rollins says: this is it we mean this ain't something else this feels like some nonthing else entirely so why not hop on this armored golf cart for the duration of the trip if the seats feel uncomfortable or the surroundings feel oddly flat and two dimensional well sorry such unique classes of old problems are not ours to deal with rather break on through to other sides which as any researcher knows is this one these ain't the final odd words on complex matters rather a friendly collective ongoing conversation where researchers are communally involved as clearly outlined in one's professionally printed and laminated new citizen guide pamphlet direct from republic of bob imaginary alternative internet pastime so strap in baby we're about to go over this in meticulous detail it deserves a certain quality of attention // [[republic of bob contents | imaginary pastime republic of bob]]