Give us hope, Bruce Moose. Thank-you. Provenance matters for lots of things, including art and magic weapons. It's not just a +2 zweihander; it has a backstory

Give us hope, Bruce Moose. Thank-you. Provenance matters for lots of things, including art and magic weapons. It's not just a +2 zweihander; it has a backstory, a past. Maybe we will value the source of things more as a bulwark against the content flood. Conscious, deliberate thinking is so slow, though. We need meaningful friction without losing rationality. Or those of us who like certain eras of music, like the 80s, draw a line in the sand and hermit ourselves in a prior age, and only its derivatives, handcrafted by a curated few, are--hesitantly--explored. Starting from here I shall only learn from: these books priced in a handful of dollars, a collection of first principles--and curses to any future synthesis or work otherwise; now I shall only Make from those, and ignore all development hereafter. (It is kind of a burying in the sand.)