Context: The following post is prompted by discussion of a recent response I made concerning two essays: the first by Sergei Prokofieff, entitled "The Being of the Internet", in which he argued that the digital media are carriers of such darkness that they are unredeemable, and the second, a reply to Prokofieff, in an article...

A golden section is a geometric form constructed in a particular ratio of 1:1.618... (it's an irrational number that goes on forever without repeating... I like the idea that the golden ratio is irrational).  Technically, the golden section is defined as the relation between two sections (a short and a long) on a line...