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@balajis.eth
Perhaps it was always so, but for several years now it’s felt like the collective consciousness has extreme presentism. Huge events sweep across the world, everyone experiences them, and then they’re forgotten. Even the recent past is gone. As for the future, the order is assumed eternal. Only the present exists.
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@bias
Eternal Memoryhole Summer
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@ivy
history has been so easily rewritten ppl are starting to only trust the present
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@hlau
Max desensitization. History doesn’t even need to rhyme anymore. It can just repeat and come across as novel. Hollywood is saved.
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Oh absolutely, for example politically I am still in 2011 (Anonymous, Occupy, Free Speech, Anti-SOPA/PIPA, Right to Repair) but everyone else has essentially memory-holed how politics was like then and apparently now I am "far-right", it's crazy to think how far the Overton window has shifted.
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There is so much information flowing at such speed that it feels like drinking from a fire hydrant everyday keeping up. Pretty sure the past was eventful too, but we didn’t experience so many things in real-time.
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@les
Does this arise from your concern of not enough people remembering the recent past of fed actions?
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Agree and we are just starting to see the ramifications of it. It’s still the early days
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@adrienne
Or is collective consciousness starting to dissipate?
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@rish
only the present exists
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@julien51.eth
The attention economy is seeping into everything.
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@avichalp
AI’s context window is increasing and ours decreasing
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@tldr
Machiavelli observed that the masses will forget everything — except having their freedom taken away. For this you will earn their unceasing hatred. I think Red US is very much remembering things — bc they believe freedoms have been removed. I think much of Gray US will react the same if crypto / AI get banned.
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just droppin' by to say I appreciate that this isn't a cross-post (I checked). fwiw for me that makes this seem like an earnest cast or at least an mvp. accordingly... i'll bring the broom if you bring the dustpan🫡
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@syed
Meanwhile on Farcaster: "We've got a Meme channel now!🥳" (That's what brought you back isn't it?)
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the uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty, and agitation of the modern bourgeois epoch has done a number on us
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@macbudkowski
Seems like collective consciousness is a stateless machine
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@meganmichelle.eth
"Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book." - Cicero (circa 40 BCE) I just get annoyed at the presentism of the books, honestly.
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What are the largest ones we’ve forgotten that we should bring back
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But also what do you make of the sense that some people use the past to kind of find loose change, moral debt to cash out in the present? If I’m cynical I would say the past, for many people, has immense utility as an endless source of grievance, and little else.
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