I’m torn between thinking it’s terrible how much digital history we’ve lost already, and thankful that we’re not carrying forward even more crap than we already are.
Sometimes, impermanence itself should be part of a thing. Think of a sand mandala, or the burning man. It exists only to be lost.
That’s hardly the point I was trying to make. But think about how many times you’ve waxed nostalgic about something from your childhood, only to re-watch / re-play it and it turns out to be shite, and now you no longer enjoy those old memories?
I love that! It’s the only true opportunity for me to experience anything like what it’s actually like inside the mind of a different person. (Some people with MPD experience remembering “someone else’s memories”. I’m just a little bit envious…)
But I’m guessing that again misses the point you were going for?
I’m torn between thinking it’s terrible how much digital history we’ve lost already, and thankful that we’re not carrying forward even more crap than we already are.
Sometimes, impermanence itself should be part of a thing. Think of a sand mandala, or the burning man. It exists only to be lost.
Sometimes.
That doesn’t really make an argument about the rest of the time…
And even when it’s true: should no trace of even a single sand mandala ever, or a single burning ever, be retained?
The digital age shouldn’t make preservation an everything-or-nothing binary absolute.
That’s hardly the point I was trying to make. But think about how many times you’ve waxed nostalgic about something from your childhood, only to re-watch / re-play it and it turns out to be shite, and now you no longer enjoy those old memories?
I love that! It’s the only true opportunity for me to experience anything like what it’s actually like inside the mind of a different person. (Some people with MPD experience remembering “someone else’s memories”. I’m just a little bit envious…)
But I’m guessing that again misses the point you were going for?