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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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Eternal Memoryhole Summer
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@semui.eth
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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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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@avichalp.eth
AI’s context window is increasing and ours decreasing
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@julien51.eth
The attention economy is seeping into everything.
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only the present exists
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@adrienne
Or is collective consciousness starting to dissipate?
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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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Agree and we are just starting to see the ramifications of it. It’s still the early days
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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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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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@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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Seems like collective consciousness is a stateless machine
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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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@sam
this happens interpersonally too
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Yeah, well maybe the entire industry tasked with securing a better future, VC, shouldn't have adopted the Logan Paul thesis of scamming cash out of crisis victims for short term, extractive, zero-sum gains. Genuinely disgusting.
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Maybe your assumption that this is a new phenomenon is itself an example of presentism. I think this is normal. Fads come and go fast, tragedies are dealt with then we move on to the next challenge. It's just how people deal with things.
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We all lost our footing so we don’t know what to focus on, and so lose agency.
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Sure, this is the default state. But it's not inevitable. As Clifton Fadiman wrote, we must strive to "disenthrall ourselves from the merely contemporary".
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