The Veldt is a beautiful song to me not just because it puts a beautiful spin on the eventual human escape into artificial worlds of the technosphere, not just because it affirms the values Ray Bradbury vilified (which are largely emancipatory and life affirming), but bc of this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZyZTLm4m18 … History looks like a queue: Ancestor1 -> Ancestor2 -> ... -> CurrentChild But when ancestor simulations are generated they will look like a stack CurrentChild -> CurrentChild - 1 -> ... -> Ancestor1 Proximate information will recursively generate the past
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I know that's not what it's literally "about" but that's what it's about to me. The world that the children made: the conscious decision, or decisions, that must and will be made to affirm and repeat both the totality of human history with all its suffering, and to reject biology
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