balajis
@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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Sam Iglesias
@sam
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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Phil Cockfield
@pjc
History as an overstuffed couch where loose change slides down between the cushions. That is a beautiful metaphor for the point you make @sam. I just love that. A little slush fund of grievance, outrage, and dirty pennies.
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