Long ago, mankind was a starry-eyed child who gazed with wonder at rocks and trees. The sky, so beautiful and vast, filled humans with curiosity. We wanted to understand what we were seeing, so we created mythologies. Heavenly bodies became gods with easy to remember backstories that crystallized man’s knowledge and made it easy to remember. The first of these […]
Until X happens to you it is an abstract concept. People imagine they understand X, but don’t think much about it. X seems like something other people experience. Those others thought the same until X happened to them. Afterwards they not only viewed X differently, but all other things as well. They never imagined X would have
History is a mashup of Groundhog Day and Fifty First Dates. Everybody is stuck in a loop so large they can’t see the curve. Historians are all that guy from Memento, knowing there’s a larger mystery, but unable to keep the slate from being wiped at the end of the day. I wonder how different
We kick around the term viral so often these days that it’s almost meaningless. It’s like saying something is popular. But there’s a reason that term stuck. Information is a virus, or at least it acts like one. It enters the mind via the senses and, depending on resistance, may or may not break through
