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The last remaining option is mal d’archive, the Kang solution: you ease the weight of all this cultural stuff by simply destroying it all. Like nerdery, this impulse has been waiting in the wings for a long time. It is also an emergent property of large stores of information, this drive ‘to burn the archive and to incite amnesia, the thing refuting... See more
The end is nigh and here's why
experimental-history.com
One of my favorite pieces about the internet, written in Newsweek in 1995, got almost everything wrong.
You've could've made a fortune betting on everything this guy bet against. https://t.co/z9ok0G2MiX
The internet is full of smart people writing beautiful prose about how bad everything is, how it all sucks, how it’s embarrassing to like anything, how anything that appears good is, in fact, secretly bad. I find this confusing and tragic
Adam Mastroianni • 28 Slightly Rude Notes on Writing
Pessimists Archive so good
instagram.comBut as the digital age drowns us in exponentially increasing rates of new content—most of which is trivial and ephemeral—it is becoming clear that almost everything more than a few years old gets buried by incoming content. This is a serious problem for the continuity of any civilization if most writing and ideas propagate laterally (from
... See moreRule of thumb: Anything involving the future is an over-optimistic lie.