The Prospect of Babel

The Prospect of Babel outlines a concept-polity, the purpose of which is to act as an index for social transition. As such, it is open to revision, modification, moderation and so on (welcoming correction on every level, while inviting others to refine it – which renders the reader, in part, the writer, or leastwise the righter via critical reading).

In respect of the text, there are three errors a reader, however clever, may make, to wit: to mistake the narrator for a dictator, and see what is propositional as prescriptive; to read what is stylised as literal; to perceive as radical what is actually pragmatic (by virtue of timescale, analysis, and open-minded trial) – to iterate, the document is not a blueprint for a utopia (more of an ideal that invites dialogue).

Please note also that it is written in blank verse – so blank in fact that you may not at first discern it (its form not affecting its legibility, though a reader may note an apparent over-use of commas – this seeming error stemming from the investment of metre [viz. if spoken, it has rhythms]). To this end, most of the commas are optional (being formal more than grammatical devices).