Dance in the Full Moon

O, the Frailty of Memory

Thursday, March 29, 2012

3.29

[My last post was my five hundredth. I think that's appropriate. I don't think I've written entirely enough actual description. Mostly, it has been emotional or situational, completely ignoring the actual problems of humanity for the more hopeful utopian situations where people's appearance and intelligence don't matter.
I hope what I can do in the future is write about some of the grit beneath humanity's fingernails.]

World Civilizations: A Found Poem

Oh, yes, paper money. Mm hm.
Not very many people do it first well.
Medieval synthesis--

At the time we're talking about here, there's like
three different nodes during this medieval global spike.
We actually do a really bad job, often,
of predicting who's going to be important in the long run.
I mean, there's just - massive amounts.

You don't want to have to carry a lot of heavy

gold or silver.

You have very - a lot of implications.
Family life.
Oh, I mean, lots of them were doing it.
Part of what makes this possible is that
the scholars don't come out against it.

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