“Chances are we’ll each be lost to time. 100 billion people have been born before us. Most of them no longer exist as individuals in our memories. No names. Faces only reflected in our own and not in any way that really matters.
But not us. We might be remembered forever. All our Twitter updates, our email, our Vimeo movies, our Xbox Live profiles, our wormy FourSquare maps. They won’t be important. Not to most people, anyway. But they’ll be there if the sysadmins take care of us, if the corporations and machines to whom we’ve entrusted our records do not fail or are not destroyed.
We won’t matter to most. But our memories will be cataloged, indexed, made available along with our stories, our names. $viewcount++.
Somewhere in the future, a picture of David Minor—in jeans and a tie, face beatific under a studio light, sleeves rolled up to expose the Eugene Debs quote tattooed on his arm—is berthed in a database table in off-system storage, waiting to be remade.”
- Joel Johnson
http://gizmodo.com/5491404/raiding-eternity
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I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work… I want to achieve it through not dying.
- Woody Allen
“Hallelujah, I have a sister. Hallelujah, I have a brother.” Don’t let the profundity of those words slip past you. Don’t let it be as plain as it may sound coming off your tongue. It is a sheer and raw fact. It is defiant. It is obstinate. It shall smack you in the face, as surely as the fact that you will die someday.
Someone you did not choose and could never have designed, requested, or planned for is there. From when simple camaraderie infects your interactions and takes you to where you are home, to when greatly beyond all others they have gotten on your nerves and upset you – ponder the miracle bestowed upon you.
Whatever you do, don’t be indifferent. Don’t be modern (read: bored). What would it take for this to hit you? The threat of their absence from your life? Well that threat is quite real and certain. It will happen eventually.
“The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.” – GK Chesterton
What to write about? I’m brainstorming some topics I can write about but I just haven’t made time for reading/writing like I used to enjoy in college.
I have some essays and books I’d like to discuss and dissect. Hopefully I can put something together for the next week.
I can’t hardly expect to draw any sort of audience if I’m not producing content. So, enough talk. Hope to have something to show for it soon.
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The modern theory of education, heavily influenced by the captains of early 20th century industry, calls for indoctrination to factory standards: sitting still for long periods of time, remaining quiet in group situations, responding to bells, obedience within a linear hierarchy of absolute authority, acclimation to a high degree of control and constraint. In the last 10-20 years we have increasingly adopted a “prison model” atop the “factory model” as well, with locker searches, drug dogs, etc Continue reading →
