Several People Are Typing

by Calvin Kasulke

we love to say the digital is fleeting like a sunset but these scraps of ourselves we fling into the ether will outlive most of us, like the sun

you know how sometimes being alive feels like this terrible cycle of eating and shitting and eating again and shitting again until you die? this is kind of a nice break from that

we’re not made to absorb this much human information at once, man. all the pathos and bathos and other thos-es

it’s overwhelming for a species that was basically content with an oral tradition of a handful of long-ass stories about the same six shitty gods for millennia now we can do all this knowing and empathizing and not-empathizing around innumerable tiny human stories and we can never fully succeed reprogramming our minds to get good at it