Boring photos of the High Street becoming an precious simply by being old enough. But how often do people take them and how often are they thrown out before getting old enough to be interesting?

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It is, of course, impossible to convey everything between generations. That's even part of the beauty of the human condition. Our constant regeneration gives rise to fresh stories, new metaphors, creative reflection. But we don't have a branch of study for Stuff We Just Know. And we need to.

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I feel like we're headed for a Mycenaean style collapse. Everything everybody 'just knows', gone. Having to start over from whatever scraps the billionaires threw us. Not having time to write and teach what we used to know. Some of which we don't see the purpose of - see MySpace - but some we do.

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What won't people know about our time? We've already lost chunks of cultural knowledge pertaining to MySpace and Napster. And servers go down. Since so many people don't bother to keep physical copies, their data can just be lost. Also, all those books scanned for AI? Hope some copies survive!

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Bona Dea: an ancient goddess who had special rites and ceremonies that men could not attend. "Bona Dea" just means "the good goddess". Her real name was known to her initiates. Which will never include us, because this powerful cult is just... gone. No records, just some masculine speculation.

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