a snippet

not going to talk about all of the things that i should be posting right now. instead, i’m going to post a piece of Venus that i’ve had kicking around in my head for a good long while.

“This is a culture that never forgets. It remembers everything that it’s been told was good, all the way back to the birth of the internet, back to the beginning of the television, back to the first radio show, back to the first telephone call, back to the first photograph, back to the first novel, back to the first painting, back to the first cave drawing. We’ve scanned and digitized and catalogued and stored away all of it, made it all available to anyone with a connection and a subscription fee. Jeff looked around in the store, at the towers of stacked comic books, at the cases upon cases of fiction and cookbooks and role playing game books and self-help books, at the rows upon rows of cards that represented disks that represented digital files that represented the sounds of musicians playing instruments into computers that represented music, and thought, ‘Dear god do we ever need a case of Alzheimer’s. We need a lobotomy.’”

thanks for reading.

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2 Responses to “a snippet”

  • qhhartman Says:
    July 13th, 2011 at 9:42 am

    I dig it. Couldn’t agree more. “The Right To Forget” is being taken away. Is that good or bad? I don’t know for sure, but our cultures are built around it in many subtle ways, and there are definitely going to be some serious growing pains as our collective memories start getting longer and longer.

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    • mike, who sucks Says:
      July 15th, 2011 at 1:21 pm

      i personally think that it’s a good thing to forget. The memory of the media does more damage than good. And i’m really focused lately on the nature of pop culture. All the films and comics and media that are doing really well right now have this self-referential awareness to them. It’s the same type of thing that i like to write, but there is a saturation at this point that is a little unsettling.

      i know that what we don’t learn from history we are doomed to repeat, but i’m also afraid that the things we don’t forget, we never get over and grow beyond.

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