12-15-2018, 12:01 PM
Thanks GG, I appreciate your sentiments!
At one time I thought perhaps I would enjoy making videos (featuring myself) and I gave it a try...
Quickly realized it was just not something I enjoyed and especially not something I’d want to be doing regularly.
Plus... there’s something about having your image on these social media platforms that just creeps me the hell out. I keep thinking about the old belief that the camera steals your soul.
I am glad I took myself out of their system, and I just feel like shit’s about to get weird for the people who genuinely thought their videos would be on YouTube for like 100 years...
http://www.sectual.com/thread-4890-post-...l#pid55069
At one time I thought perhaps I would enjoy making videos (featuring myself) and I gave it a try...
Quickly realized it was just not something I enjoyed and especially not something I’d want to be doing regularly.
Plus... there’s something about having your image on these social media platforms that just creeps me the hell out. I keep thinking about the old belief that the camera steals your soul.
I am glad I took myself out of their system, and I just feel like shit’s about to get weird for the people who genuinely thought their videos would be on YouTube for like 100 years...
http://www.sectual.com/thread-4890-post-...l#pid55069
(06-25-2018, 06:59 PM)Trix Wrote: Things like Facebook etc. won't be around in 100 years, I'm sorry. It just won't be. The whole digital progression will be like the comparison between phonographs and MP3 players by then, only with tech and concepts that are totally beyond our understanding at this time. Or, it'll be the stone ages again due to natural events (CME/EMP, etc). One or the other.
What will have promise of longevity is the WRITTEN WORD. So go ahead and make your videos, but TRANSCRIBE that material and have physical copies of it. That is absolutely the only way to ensure that it might survive.
This digital material is subject to censorship at the mere click of a button due to algorithms which look for certain words and then "disappear" your content forever if they're found... none of it is safe. If people depend on the idea that the internet in its current form (and the digital materials therein) will stand the test of time, they will be in even more danger of being lost to time than their ancestors who were featured in physical photos and newspaper clippings.
Do not depend on this digital platform to stand the test of time... it's naive and it's a dangerous belief if you ACTUALLY want to be remembered.
As much as they're dumbing down society these days, it'll be a miracle if anybody is even smart enough to read by then anyway. But as always there will still be some who are apart from the herd and are still intelligent.
The secret to hard copies is physical distribution. Don't keep it all in one place and don't hoard it for yourself. If you can get it into book form, mail it out to select places which accept random books and display them or keep them for record. There are sites which list these "open libraries"... they're all over the world. Distribute, distribute, distribute.
