I love how you take aspects of current threats, chew them over, and put them in a historical context. I'm thinking about the total erasure you describe with digital archives, and remembering all the sculptured reliefs on the Hoysala temples I studied... so many horse riders with their heads knocked off, gods without noses, warriors missing half a face. Still there for us to see now.
This sounds fascinating—I was sutured myself to learn that those maths were not nature’s west and tear. How many times I have fginr to the Egyptian wing at the MET and stared at them, not putting one and one together. Even this is a sign of brainwashing the story out of us. They never cited why what was missing was not a natural occurrence or the context point in history it happened. It just stands there, silent.
this was such an interesting point on the long-term consequences of revision and erasure: "A falsehood, repeated with precision and frequency, achieves the tone of fact. Memory becomes malleable. The search for original context leads to broken links or redacted sources. It becomes harder to prove the thing as it once was because the apparatus of remembrance has already been compromised."
this is quickly becoming one of my favorite nonfiction substacks — always sparks a new insight! :)
Thank you, truly! I appreciate your readership. This quote you have highlighted is what every single person needs to know right now. The speed at which this loss of accurate information is cascading is unprecedented. The vehicle by which alternate reality is reproduced is unlike ever before. I hope if you have not already, you will share this piece. It is not an understatement to say it is a service to humanity. This has nothing to do with me having written it. It is more of a PSA than anything else.
Confession: I do add hints of fictional representation of reality from time to time. When I do, I I call them out in the pieces. For example Thursdays you may have noticed Tilde— it is a poetry cycle based upon my lived experiences through a fictional construct. My plays are adaptations from sourced materials. My ‘dinner table’ dialogues, whatever form they come in, including Letters to Chaucer, are as well.
I love how you take aspects of current threats, chew them over, and put them in a historical context. I'm thinking about the total erasure you describe with digital archives, and remembering all the sculptured reliefs on the Hoysala temples I studied... so many horse riders with their heads knocked off, gods without noses, warriors missing half a face. Still there for us to see now.
This sounds fascinating—I was sutured myself to learn that those maths were not nature’s west and tear. How many times I have fginr to the Egyptian wing at the MET and stared at them, not putting one and one together. Even this is a sign of brainwashing the story out of us. They never cited why what was missing was not a natural occurrence or the context point in history it happened. It just stands there, silent.
this was such an interesting point on the long-term consequences of revision and erasure: "A falsehood, repeated with precision and frequency, achieves the tone of fact. Memory becomes malleable. The search for original context leads to broken links or redacted sources. It becomes harder to prove the thing as it once was because the apparatus of remembrance has already been compromised."
this is quickly becoming one of my favorite nonfiction substacks — always sparks a new insight! :)
Thank you, truly! I appreciate your readership. This quote you have highlighted is what every single person needs to know right now. The speed at which this loss of accurate information is cascading is unprecedented. The vehicle by which alternate reality is reproduced is unlike ever before. I hope if you have not already, you will share this piece. It is not an understatement to say it is a service to humanity. This has nothing to do with me having written it. It is more of a PSA than anything else.
Confession: I do add hints of fictional representation of reality from time to time. When I do, I I call them out in the pieces. For example Thursdays you may have noticed Tilde— it is a poetry cycle based upon my lived experiences through a fictional construct. My plays are adaptations from sourced materials. My ‘dinner table’ dialogues, whatever form they come in, including Letters to Chaucer, are as well.
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