Duality of The Rough Beast

"Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly." Isaiah 6:2

For some time in these posts I have seen The Technium as two distinct parts; the products of DNA and the products of the products of DNA. The biosphere or Gaia being the direct output of genes comprising millions of DNA base pairs as one half of the whole, the artifacts of man as the other. I took this stance as far as it seemed useful but now I will return to Kevin Kline's original formulation which, not coincidentally, matches Dawkins Extended Phenotype and EO Wilson's Eusocial Human (even though Dawkins and Wilson are at each others throats). A thin layer of human frontal lobe brain matter networked over 7 billion mortal souls which in turn cleave to networked technology including the silicon extensions to human cognition.

Yeats' Rough Beast seemed tied to the falcon but not the falconer -- the two seemed divergent. Part of this model comprehended the Singularity -- Sexy B3aST -- a pure technological emergence without human form and disjoint from biology. Now I will return to the original dyad; an emergent, combinatorial entity comprising DNA, XNA and ZNA. We have met the Singularity and he is us. The Rough Beast is people plus tools.