Monday

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people have come to this blog. strangers, most. most stay for less than five seconds. most have come because of this post. and most of the rest come because of this one.

three-thousand three-hundred thirty three. a lot of folks. someone from the Islamic Republic of Iran yesterday clicked a link that brought them here. what a time to be alive.

3333. what kind of a year will that be? seems like a long ways in the future. and yet, would someone from 700ish A.D. be so dumbstruck by our world, as we live today? what, in all of that time, has changed so much? sure, there are all the conveniences (contrivances?) of our technologically badass society. and yet, we still live in communities, still seek love, still fight wars, still are humbled by our own smallness, still search for answers that will never come, tell stories and work each day, eat and have sex and create new generations...

visions of the future always seem so foreign. still, while the world may change, and while we may reshape the world with our uncaring hubris and even destroy our place in it, humans will never change. all the good, all the bad, all the middle... as history has grown, as knowledge has expanded, as progress has been made... so too have the meaningful things become muddled, the important things become distant, the least valuable things given a price and the most valuable things deemed mysterious and unattainable...

anyway, thanks for stopping by. this blog is just an elaborate way for me to say hello.

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

just wanted to say that I was one of the many that found your page due to the grammatolatry of a previous entry. I will say, however, that your blog is far more interesting than the quote that brought me here, and that I disagree with your comparison of +/- 1300 years, but that is clearly a discussion for somewhere outside a blog message board. may you find peace in your presence, not in your gramatolatry.

ismateo said...

thank you, Anonymous. you made my day today.