A sentimental memory is a persistent goal for which the associated desires are illegible to you. You can only let such a memory go when the desires become legible enough to pursue via a simpler mechanism than recreating the remembered experience. Brands are sentimental memories.
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It’s not about forgetting. If you forget the past you have no future either. Just a blooming-buzzing-confusion if a present. To be present in the present, the past needs to be an unsentimental memory, and the future as open as it can possibly be. A maximum potential mind state.
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Think of this as the potential energy side of elan vital which is sort of a current/flux. Could you reimagine consumption behaviors to catalyze and enable such states? What does branding look like for such products?
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I think this is the branding associated with the most hackable and designed-for-repairability type products. Where consumption segues towards production via maintenance. There is still sentimental memory but it’s of agency, not pleasure. An improvement.
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This can be even more reactionary of course as in sentimental memories of factory jobs. John Henry memories. Memories of mom’s apple pie might make you a sentimental bore but memories of being a steel-driving man might make you a resentful fundamentalist.
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Is there a way out of this bind? I think so. Still working out the details. Maybe I’ll continue this thread in a year or three if I figure it out.
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