So how about we explore the idea of "technologism," in a somewhere serious fashion. In the essay “Towards Helhaven” Burke seems to suggest the idea that in searching for affirmation toward technology “[w]e must not turn back the clock. We must continue in the ways that made us great – 6 percent of the world’s population, using up 40 percent of the world’s production. Forward, outward, and up – as per my vision of Helhaven, to which let us now repair” (57). Following Burke’s line of satire then, let me make the claim that there is “no turning back” now and that our time on earth has become a predictable failure. So here we go:

In the essay, Burke seems to say that by relying on technological advancements to fix the problems created by technology that the pollution generated by the new technologies and industrial advances will continue to creating a spiraling downward situation that will lead some of us to seek refuge in bubble heaven (a human made, artificial environment existing on a different planetary surface where the only reminders we have of earth are rooms that house computerized simulacrum). But, why don’t we expand on this idea a little more. If you accept the idea of ‘hypertechnologism’ then the idea of Helhaven is only a temporary settlement for our future colonists. Let us suppose that our future colonists do in fact develop confrontational wartribes and continue to perpetuate the technological cycle. Under this line of reasoning, as the planetary tribes begin to expand defenses and gain further technologies that generate further waste, one tribe will inevitably perfect a space-style-nuke-system capable of destroying the other tribes. But, in the production of said space-style-nuke-systems, the waste generated by their production and the waste generated by their use will eventually make the human-bubble-heaven and the planet it is housed on uninhabitable. Thus, forcing our victorious tribe to once again begin to expand outward as the cycle begins to repeat itself, eventually creating a situation where humanity is spread to the far reaches of the galaxy leaving a trail of technological byproduct in its wake.

The above example may seem a bit extreme, and I fully acknowledge that, but, how about we look at the situation from a different angle. Consider the situation we are currently living in - a situation where computers and the technologies that have been created by the advancement of the computer. Next, look at some of the environmental factors we are currently dealing with and then imagine the California coastline before all the oil spills. We can take out our high powered telescopes (satellite imaging) and see the results of the oil spills, but the only way to get an image of what that great coastline once was we now have to step into the simulacrum of the Internet and search for old pictures. I think, and maybe you all should join me in this, that is time to purchase that plot on the moon or a seat in the rocket-ship called Helhaven-Hope-Float. Who is up for some space travel?