One of the weird things that hits me whenever historic shit goes down is the memory of people who died just before it. They represent memory lines you still relate to but cannot extrapolate through the transformations you yourself go through.
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Kobe Bryant died Jan 26, just before this hit. Here’s a list of famous people who died in December 2019. Their world lines end just before this hit. Their memory ghosts live on in the extended pre-corona timeline.
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My father-in-law died last August. It’s become oddly surreal trying to remember him now.
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This is an interesting thought that I encounter repeatedly.
To what degree is our personal model bounded by the perspective of the circumstances of our time? How do we contrast the color of our current filter with the perspective of thinkers from other epochs?
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Same but i dwell on their end state. They died secure in an old narrative about how the world worked and what could happen. Like I imagine saying to Kobe, or my grandparents,, “this happened” and they kind of laugh and are more at peace that they got out before it
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