Dialogue:
The Second Internet
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Do you think there is a second
Internet?
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What do you mean?
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Like, an Internet only some
people know about where secret things happen.
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What kind of secret things?
Government things?
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I’m not quite sure. All kinds
of things I guess.
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Like porn?
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Yeah maybe that would be a part
of it.
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Would it be for artists? Like
an underground art scene on the Internet?
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Probably not exclusively. But
that could be part of it as well.
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So there would be this second
Internet that – wait, would it work on the same network? As in, could anyone
with Wi-Fi get on it if they knew where to go?
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Yeah. You wouldn’t need a
special computer or anything. The second Internet would just be there and you
might even be able to stumble upon it by mistake but if you didn’t know how you
got there, its unlikely that you could ever get there again. You know, without
knowing.
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What language would it be in?
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I would say English, Russian or
Chinese. Can’t say for sure though.
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Right. Talking about this kind
of makes me anxious.
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How come?
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Because you don’t really know
if there is a second Internet or what kind of secret societies are out there.
What they know about you. Maybe they know things about you you don’t even know
yourself.
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They probably do.
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Well that scares me. And it
also kind of pisses me off.
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I don’t think you are alone
there.
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Yeah, but no one ever does
anything about it you know.
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Well they can’t because they
don’t really know for sure.
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I think we should start the
second Internet.
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But we just said –
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I know. But at least we would
be on this side of it all.
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But we don’t even know how to
do that.
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Well we would hire someone we
can trust.
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And who would we let on it?
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Anyone who could find it. We
could make them swear not to tell anyone. Bind them to the secret somehow.
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Like blackmail?
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Yeah! So like, if they manage
to find it, we would somehow gain access to their entire computer and threaten
to expose certain things.
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Well what if they don’t have
anything juicy on their computers? Or what if they don’t believe us? What if
they do believe us and just don’t care?
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I’m not really sure yet.
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Why would they even want to be
on the second Internet? What would we offer that they would want?
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I don’t know.
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Then what’s the whole point of
it all?
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I don’t know. Sorry. I just got
carried away. I just don’t like the feeling that they are watching, that they
know things, that I’m excluded in some way. On the outside you know?
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No one does.
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Well I really don’t like it. Especially now.
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Yeah. I get it. Nothing you can
do though.
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Yeah, I guess not.
