A machine which was to produce nothing
was already described dozens of years ago in a so
called science-fiction novel however the description
didn't give enough details to draw an image of it
let alone a plan. The story tells that when the
machine was switched on the world began to vanish
slowly threatening its constructor (or maybe a
friend of the constructor – I don't remember).
Systematically and one after another (though it's
quite unclear what made the machine chose this thing
to annihilate it before that one and after the other
– maybe the alphabetic order?) objects, beings,
phenomena, processes and so on were disappearing.
According to the most simple association (machines
like simple associations) that nothing is emptiness.
I wonder how the machine was to annihilate itself.
If it was to do that. Maybe it didn't consider
itself SOMETHING. If it considered itself NOTHING
then it didn't have to disappear.
Such a machine is not the point, no. Nor such a factory. Nor the factory of nothing. It's not the point such machines work in this factory. The point is this factory is not going to produce anything. Does it mean this factory will not work? It will be closed all the time (or opened – it would be interesting to visit such a factory) and just won't work? No. That's not the point, either. It will work, but it won't produce anything. According to what a sage once said about other sages: A true sage doesn't leave anything after his death. Frankly writing I don't know if he said just that, first of all if he used the word true, because if he used it, this would mean, in his opinion (and in the opinion of the others, too) that there were not true sages and those not true sages use to leave something, but what: teachings? disciples? memories? tales? books? a legend? This is what happens when you are trying to turn a gossip into an official quotation.... Gosh! He was not a true sage, because he left this quotation. This thought. This indication. Well, well, well..... This might mean there aren't true sages. There are only non-true ones. Does non-true mean false? . . . . . . . . . . So, it would be far better if he didn't exist at all. If he didn't exist, he would really leave nothing. But how would we know he was a sage, if he didn't exist? And how about the factory? It will be. It must be. It must be built. It will be very important factory. It will be the foundation of Liberland economy. So, it's time to design it. If it is going to be so important, it must be large, magnificent, beautiful. And of course it won't be the factory of nothing, it will be the |