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I think this is how it should be. Take keeping Birthday Cards for instance. The person sending you the card didn't intend you to keep it forever! When I give
by firecall 5y ago
I think this is how it should be.
Take keeping Birthday Cards for instance. The person sending you the card didn't intend you to keep it forever!
When I give a gift, I don't intend it to be kept forever!
When I make something; I don't expect it to last forever.
When I tweet something, I don't want that to be tweeted forever. In fact, I run an auto tweet delete bot.
Things should be transient.
The few scraps of history that we do found have value in their scarcity.
If society preserved everything, we'd be crushed and destroyed under its weight.
We can say the same of societies rituals as well. We must constantly reinvent to progress for the better of us all.
One of Steve Jobs first actions when he returned to Apple was to dispose of the archives. (He gifted them to a University I think)