I find it rather vain of folks to think humanity should care forever about their personal experiences
That it won’t happen again or be known is part of the intrigue to me.
Why do we need to keep propagating our own contemporary fascinations forward in time?
We’re each going to die and very few of us will leave behind truly novel ideas that humanity can rely on
Most of our experiences are emotionally novel for us, and that specific time and place creates that novelty.
What makes them so will be completely lost on future people. So much information is inaccessible to them when reading about it or watching a poorly shot video
And to me that’s the cool part about having been there.
I’d rather folks go on creating such experiences for themselves than watch my highlight reel and never really get since they weren’t there
That it won’t happen again or be known is part of the intrigue to me.
Why do we need to keep propagating our own contemporary fascinations forward in time?
We’re each going to die and very few of us will leave behind truly novel ideas that humanity can rely on
Most of our experiences are emotionally novel for us, and that specific time and place creates that novelty.
What makes them so will be completely lost on future people. So much information is inaccessible to them when reading about it or watching a poorly shot video
And to me that’s the cool part about having been there.
I’d rather folks go on creating such experiences for themselves than watch my highlight reel and never really get since they weren’t there