It's meaningless to you, but even how I reflect on these moments with the encyclopedia, with Encarta, that taught me about the world that you would only ever possibly know studying the field's texts or talking with an expert. The fundamentals of building a dam. That wasn't something you could have.
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But it didn't.
And that is the most crushing thing to live through.
There was a world that I thought I was saving.
And I didn't.
But then you live your story and it turns out to be a lie.
And that is when you become an adult.
Hope, in service, will make you do incredible things. You will rise to the occasion, on its back. Inspiring that in others is not wrong. 15 years later.
That is something I will always have to live with. We felt like angels. We were perfect.
Being disabused of this was the most violent thing to ever happen.
But they didn't.
I don't know how to tell you what it feels like to live afterwards.
Just... Not all of it
Fuck this hurts.
I thought "Video evidence of racism and sexism will solve everything! We'll know who the assholes are!" I chose my career accordingly.
Today, I say "Hope exists to be crushed."
and yes, it was magical.
Thought it was gonna be more star trek and less 1984.
If we ever get real AI, I hope to Computer Christ it wants to keep humans as peta and not... Do what we arguably deserve.
This one hurts.
we were given a beautiful tool and we used it to do violence.
probably don't even deserve this tool.