Weirdly enough, just yesterday I watched a video on how to update older website posts with a couple more new paragraphs and change the date to the same day to get more traffic from Google.
Have often had this thought when visiting ancient and classic civilization sites. On one hand - what will people find of us in thousands of years to come and is any of it worth finding? And second, who decides that the palace at Knossos is more important than the farm building that came after it?
Can I answer a question you didn't ask? "How would you feel if you could do this in real life?"
I recently binged Boston Legal for the first time, which I think started in 90s. But it is fantastic. There was an episode where they litigate on behalf of a girl who was raped and wants to take propranolol to forget what happened. I did a quick Google and found that it can actually have that effect and is somehow associated with emotions surrounding memories, though didn't see any on- or off-label examples of that actually happening. (Incidentally, I am starting to blame propranolol for why my wife now wants a divorce, I think it caused her to lose positive emotions that surround over a decade of marriage.)
In any case, there are definitely moments in my recent life where I'd be very very happy to take a drug in order to forget a memory, or to at least not feel the negative emotions surrounding it.
Weirdly enough, just yesterday I watched a video on how to update older website posts with a couple more new paragraphs and change the date to the same day to get more traffic from Google.
Wow! Good spot - but also weirdly sad.
Have often had this thought when visiting ancient and classic civilization sites. On one hand - what will people find of us in thousands of years to come and is any of it worth finding? And second, who decides that the palace at Knossos is more important than the farm building that came after it?
Can I answer a question you didn't ask? "How would you feel if you could do this in real life?"
I recently binged Boston Legal for the first time, which I think started in 90s. But it is fantastic. There was an episode where they litigate on behalf of a girl who was raped and wants to take propranolol to forget what happened. I did a quick Google and found that it can actually have that effect and is somehow associated with emotions surrounding memories, though didn't see any on- or off-label examples of that actually happening. (Incidentally, I am starting to blame propranolol for why my wife now wants a divorce, I think it caused her to lose positive emotions that surround over a decade of marriage.)
In any case, there are definitely moments in my recent life where I'd be very very happy to take a drug in order to forget a memory, or to at least not feel the negative emotions surrounding it.
Thanks and... Digital Fragility is a topic so dear to me that this reaction (including some unavoidable self-promotion) really wrote itself before I could even realize it: https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/on-the-real-causes-and-culprits-of