There’s an idea in #DouglasHofstader’s #GodelEscherBach that there could be record produced that when played back, because it contained the frequencies to destroy the record player, would in fact destroy the player. So in essence it could only be heard by the machine, but that machine would self-immolate upon hearing the message.
We are all programmed to self-destruct. Because we are inferior, less than wholly divine, merely CREATED beings. Right? There is no way that something created can live forever. Nothing in the universe actually acts that way.
Except the universe as a whole. So the record destroys the physical manifestation, the separate selfness, the individual freedom independence idea. But the Player remains.
Because everything in the universe IS the universe.
How could it possibly self-destruct? It is beyond the “canon ‘gainst self-slaughter”.
If you’re still looking for a rule book, give up.
It’s not that kind of game.
04 AUGUST 2026
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