It rained in New York on December 23rd.

It rained in New York on December 23rd.

A cargo trailer truck loaded above legal capacity with a shipment of stolen headphone noise cancellation plugins, pirate DVD players, circuitbent cableboxes and hacked cellphones propelled itself over desire, greed and gravity, gained terminal speed at which fraction could no longer be maintained with the laws of market capitalism, and skidded off the Long Island Expressway into the Brooklyn Navy Yard industrial park. Not a single person witnessed the event.

Fallout from the accident contaminated the East River and spread undetected across news filters, satellite signals and search results, exponentially altering billions of psychoacoustic structures.

The neurotransmitter mutation had two major effects:

- individuals have reported propaganda alexia - difficulties in "making sense" of some forms of information (newsfeeds, economic forecasts, history-after-the-fact explanations) while exhibiting a noticeably emotional/aesthetic response to others (e.g. finding statistical data and noise in the environment "sublime" or "playing" language as a game of metaphors exclusive of communicative function);
- consumer pattern recognition was suppressed; this has been linked by some to the subsequent global Christmas Credit Card Crash but it's dubious whether the two events were causally linked or even correlated.

On December 25th, two days after the 18-wheeler crash, music was heard everywhere, the hunters/gatherers returned to the megalopolis and the desert spanned the world.

What did the crashes sound like?