It seems that someone is trying to show you something with the internet.
Seems that they are using the internet for a specific reason. Someone planning to use truisms to express something, express something about truisms, study truisms, or be anywhere intellectually near truisms is going to have a bit of a time. You can't just make a book full of them (without sounding crazy.) a simple list doesn't really explain anything. Any other medium can't really employ such straightforward language realistically. Other than the internet, there isn't really any other venue that can convey what PLEASE CHANGE BELIEFS seems to be about.
The PLEASE section will put a truism up on the screen and then change it about every 5 seconds. If you have any sort of reaction to what it's saying and feel compelled to click on it it'll give you a little essay about a truism, but it'll be an unrelated one; It'll also keep changing every few seconds. So you can't read all of it. Different amounts and frequencies of reacting(clicking) will make the essays more or less "inflammatory" or change them to poems. eventually you'll be brought back to the beginning. CHANGE will let you pick a truism and change it! You'll type in what truth you want to change, and then it'll show you what everyone else tried to change it to, but the one on the front won't actually change. BELIEFS will ask you "Believe?" and present you with the list of truisms and check box for each one ( if you believe you can put a check there. ) Then it'll show you how many other people thought so too.
I think that:
PLEASE made these phrases seem very complicated, too much to understand - it didn't want me to be able to get all the information.
CHANGE made them absolute and unchangeable.
BELIEFS was there to universalize the list, and make me think of them as "truth."
So, the artist was trying to tell me that truth is absolute and meaningless, or at least too complex to be entirely understood.
Monday, September 1, 2008
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