Conclusions drawn by living people about what history has "led up to" inform their opinions and actions. This produces more history. We all help fill in the blanks no matter what we do or where we are or what is going on. Our ignorance of history, our acceptance of sound bites, slogans, and short, one-sided versions of long and densely complex stories in lieu of long and inconvenient journeys into the thickets of facts, secrets, lies, and exaggerations in pursuit of a truth that we will never truly know keeps us slaves to repetition and futility, but it is understandable. Society cannot develop itself on the unactionable murk of scholarly doubt. It needs grist for its multiplying hydra of devouring mills, the healthsome whole grains of infallible sciences, convenient truths, and interchangeable political realities to bake into bread. The people need their bread to get through the day. This is a truth you can't avoid.
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I would straight-up let an AI plug me into a virtual world. Perhaps I already have. Who gives a fuck?
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Slowly reading War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, broken up by quickly-read books of poetry. Perhaps I should track the reading in a separate blog, or just an updating text file posted somewhere. Or never mention it again. Time will tell, won't it?
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ok peace
--JL
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