The Year of the Great.

The way in which history will find us will be magnificent. History belongs to those who write it, and with the advent of the computer and the age of the Internet, everyone can write something. The danger consists in the fact that it is possible that computers will not be the main form of communication amongst the masses in the future, they may be available only to the wealthiest in societies—if the resources, or contemporary need for them exist at all. One of the most key elements in this process is the fact that so much of the written world today speaks in English—the history we will all so remarkably write is potentially written in a dead language, or certainly one evolved far enough to find these words and use of grammar painstakingly difficult to sift for its wisdom and humor should either exist in the way in which it is meant today, in our time certainly, but also more remarkably, in our particular place.

The histories of yesterday are told by politics, and by war—as those are two powerful tools to wipe the slate clean, or more accurately, to add their scribbles to the overall piece. It’s a relationship among all humankind, those able now days, and through all time, to impress our collective stamp upon the world. We must consider the possibility that the concept which is represented by the word, ‘day’ in the future, is so different in meaning that perhaps the entire tone of this piece is different to that world. They may not have as much of our world as we think they will.

If one has had children, or even loved someone as their child younger in youth, then this same concept is felt on a greater emotional level, and a less drastic social level—our children for the most part are just the other side of the coin in the same purse. Our history has this same effect far less emotionally, and incomparably more socially as we stretch our sight through future generations; whether we have children or not, we can understand the end as far as our imagination and judgment can allow us to stretch. Imagining seventeen hundred years in the future seems impossible, but for when we imagine ourselves understanding how we piece together the fall of the Roman Empire.

I did not mention famine, plague, or natural disaster in the above mechanisms for rebirth as those are catalysts with which we are able to see societies laid bare through their response; sometimes resulting in a reemergence of the society afflicted, or a wholly new society all together.  More to follow.  I hope you all have a Great year.

Karn