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I bought a new guitar and it inspired this production.

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‘A journey of a thousand miles begins with one charge’.
That’s how they advertised the new generation of electric cars. Battery development advanced at such breakneck speed that a single charge would keep a car rolling for days. Range-anxiety disappeared. And as the cars were mostly autonomous it became easier and more relaxing to drive.
Then, like the sun breaking through dark clouds to shine on humanity came the massive breakthrough in nuclear fusion. Huge quantities of free and clean energy became available at scale. Soon, every major city in the world was running on energy so cheap to produce that it became pointless to meter. To charge your electric car that would run for days cost you nothing. So now, if you owned a car, you could really go places.
And if you didn’t own one and wanted to travel as a big family you could use the trains. When all the lines became electrified train journeys became incredibly cheap to buy.
Even air travel transformed into a sustainable and inexpensive industry — dirigibles and electric cruise liners filled the skies.
The Jevons’ paradox kicked in; now that everyone had access to free or cheap travel, everyone started to travel more. They visited their family and friends, they travelled to distant cultural events, they visited tourist attractions, they visited places they had never been to before just for the novelty of seeing some place new. It became so popular to travel that even people who were naturally misanthropic and fixed in their routines felt compelled to join in. They were in this weird mental space where they travelled without knowing where they were going or why they were going there, it was just the thing to do. And many people found it strangely satisfying: some people travelled and never returned, they just kept being on the move from one location to the next preferring to stay adrift. Questions about the meaning of life disappeared — being on the move meant you left such thoughts behind. Being on the move became the meaning.
Soon the whole world was in constant motion. Every road, rail, air corridor, byway, lane and highway was a restless and unceasing stream of vehicles.
In space, satellites monitored this movement. A deluge of data poured down to earth mapping the ebb and flow in the tides of humanity.
Then one day, a data scientist named Electra was studying the patterns in the readouts and she realised what was happening. The inescapable cycle of birth, death and rebirth was being played out. Technology and civilisation had progressed to such a pitch that humans had reverted back to the rhythms of existence once enjoyed by the hunter-gatherer tribes from millennia ago.
The migration of humanity to every part of the globe was repeating over and over again.
Travel far enough, she thought, and eventually you return to the place you started from.

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from We Entered The Vortex Of Desire, track released May 7, 2022
Image from Unsplash.

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Gentle Ihor's Devotion Leeds, UK

Formed in the 1980s. Their 12 inch single 'Naked' was single of the week in Melody Maker. Signed to TUG REC in Germany. Lead singer Gentle Ihor is solo now collaborating with various musicians.

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