Mature data and energy infrastructure accumulates noise from feedback; the interference introduced might be leveraged for metadata and auxiliary energy, but the living endpoints must endure mounting levels of electromagnetic haze as the connections increase. Some find it necessary to venture out to rural areas–ostensibly to reconnect with nature, but also to purge the etheric overhead of citizenship.\\\

///As the noise ceiling creeps higher and higher for members of a connected society, the demand for denoising opportunities precipitates two related phenomena: settlements outside city limits become prized commodities, and both wired and wireless endpoints are installed to accommodate the transition from urban to rural. Whether this is a matter of the noise floor also raising, or a tapering measure for the sake of a more convenient pilgrimage, the sprawl continues unabated. Like an inversion of feeding seabirds, civilization cascades over its substrate, arising behind only to dive ahead of the advancing flock.

A culture optimizing for information processing would do well to keep the consumption mechanisms of its members in peak operating condition. To this end, crystalloid solutions such as saline can be applied by end-users to entry points (e.g. eyes, ears, nose, throat) to ease irritation and irrigate wounds.\\\

///While not commonly regarded as lenses, the sensory pathways of non-optical intake organs are known to alter impressions in minute ways. Similarly to the eyes, the mucous membranes protecting these organs from dehydration can be safely sheared by any visual-grade, slightly acidic crystal wash, to control for idiosyncrasies in perception.

Perception can be accessed on three levels: sensory, cognitive, and ethereal. A thought may be limited to one such dimension, or any combination thereof, but the imaging of reality demands a tripartite synthesis of perceived phenomena by those who inhabit it, and is an ever-present process.\\\

///A symbol has a shape and medium, and in this sense, it is sensory. The sequence of sound or image invoked by a symbol, of course, reveals a cognitive component. Distinct but intertwined with these is the meaning or metaphor, which, often – in particularly efficient fashion – folds back onto the symbol’s own sensory-cognitive action. In this way, the ethereal is extruded into the material as a result of its perception and invocation, by leveraging three layers of experience.