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Indeed, but there’s this concept called “forgetfulness”. We can’t afford to hoard everything, eventually things get lost in time and it’s ok. We will die and so
by eecc 5y ago
Indeed, but there’s this concept called “forgetfulness”. We can’t afford to hoard everything, eventually things get lost in time and it’s ok. We will die and so will our own footprints disappear. Something - perhaps the most relevant and actively preserved, or frequent and therefore merely because of statistics - will survive.
But we need to entertain the option of letting go
- romwell 5y agoSure, we don't need to preserve every single piece of scrap in our collective memory. But archiving doesn't do that either. There are many more silent films archived than either of us have watched, for example. Then sure, not everything needs to be archived. I believe there's a reasonable, subjective threshold of what you'd need to keep to get an idea of a person living in the time period. Letting go and keeping are not incompatible ideas.