Several People Are Typing

by Calvin Kasulke

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

Where’s that Constant Amazement if you’re all thoughts all the time?

we expect digital space to archive everything even after we delete it we don’t think anything’s ever really “gone,” the undo command and little “on this day last year” nostalgia-prompts have ruined us for that

we keep forgetting to preserve things because it’s just there every day and why would anyone want to remember last week’s internet -- and we don’t, but we want to remember the fifteen-years-ago internet and that was last week’s internet, once

I checked with our ops team—technically there isn’t a limit on how much anarchy is loosed upon the world. I understand this must be frustrating for you! The best lack all conviction, while the operations team are full of passionate intensity. It’s frustrating for me, too! See??

gerald I’m still getting used to some basic things I forgot what a sneeze felt like and I thought I was dying for like a second pradeep I know I heard you screaming in the hallway