The sun rises in the East, they say -- but not in the heart of the Empire du Milieu. Time was when men rose early, early being defined as "before dawn," to begin their work. They could greet the rising sun with more than a casual acknowledgment, Deus, Deus meus, ad te de luce vigilo. . . . Now Peking has given us a true Red Dawn: the dawn of the solar simulacrum. Sitivit in te anima mea . . . Was the LED sun installed in response to popular desire, the longing for light? . . . quam multipliciter tibi caro mea. . . . Or is the light only needed to enable the fleshly deeds for which one gathers in the square? In terra deserta, et invia, et inaquosa . . . Does the new sun stay in its virtual horizon? Is there no solar transit across the screen? Is the background always red? Can we not at least accept the desert and the clouds for what they are? No, we have to encapsulate the sun in bottles of vitamin D, we have to install the NatureBright SunTouch Plus Light and Ion Therapy Lamp. To work in the sun would make one a red-neck, but to visit the tanning bed is a sign of luxury. . . . sic in sancto apparui tibi, ut viderem virtutem tuam, et gloriam tuam. . . . And now the sun is only visible in the square, not from every plot of land. One can make a special pilgrimage to see the sun perpetually arrayed in the perfect moment of its dawn.
How long till one simply views the LED sun on one's own LED screen, rather than making the trek to the "real" LED?
The LED sun does not simply supply an deficiency. It indicates that the sun has already been made superfluous. Evidently, the sun knows it.
Rex vero laetabitur in Deo, laudabuntur omnes qui jurant in eo: quia obstructum est os loquentium iniqua.
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