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Not many activities allow you to drop out from under civilized life and provide a sort of clinging-to-the-undercarriage view of human experience. Doing the human collective psychology equivalent of watching machine code execute or packet traffic flow through a router.
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Absurdist fiction (though that’s a really bad term for Carroll) is one of the few ways. Twitter can be another if played right. I think of it as the view of the human story that perhaps Doctor Who would see through the instruments of the Tardis, while playing with timelines.
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This is another perspective on why I’m interested in logging technology. An actual log of human life would of course be impossible to grok, streaming by at yottabytes per second. But something like Alice in Wonderland puts you at the logging process level.
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Maybe semantic flattening is a good term for it. You vigorously reject any attempts to create verbal hierarchies of frames. You squash and serialize like a logging process.
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I've long maintained that a suitably-periodically-hashed LifeLog would be the ultimate private key for a person. The sort where you have to follow them around like a crazed paparazzi for 2 years to even have a hope of forging their stuff.
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