Memento mori: Notes on collective responsibility (and why the best thing we can do for the earth is to remember that we will die)

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Few things horrify me more than what humans will do in pursuit of permanence or eternal life: maintaining the myth of empire, digital immortality, life-extending “healthcare”, just to name a few. (The show Altered Carbon best illustrates the horrors that will come to pass if we succeed in this endeavor.

best illustrates the horrors that will come to pass if we succeed in this endeavor.) This aspiration to never die is a dream to never return what has been given.

Us who presently hold this baton have the responsibility to remember where we come from as we design our present that, inevitably, shapes the future. It’s a big, necessary ask—most days I am too tired to think beyond the evening. But without this presence of mind, we lose our way, I think, even with the best of intentions. The narratives we tell ourselves can be easily corrupted.

These days, as a writer, I think often of this statement by André Breton: “The work of art is valuable only in so far as it is vibrated by the reflexes of the future.” It is impossible to tell what these future reflexes are or will be, but the clues are already here. We likely take part in making them, too.

 

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