Cannabis & The Impermanence of Modern Media

I've got no real need to consume old media. My boyfriend gave me some old vcr tapes of slasher movies. I love them, but in this day and age, consuming old media kind of sucks. Those items just dont age as well as a book or a tapestry. We find the remnants of civilization through pottery, through preserved clothe and structures. Our furniture used to be weaved by hand, it used to be carved and decorated. They were heavy and sturdy, and hard to move. Furniture that was heavy enough to leave scratch marks on the floor and dips in the wood where their legs once stood. When we are gone, what will be left of us? When the vcr tapes aren't kept anymore, and the film inside has decayed...where will we be? We have lost so many forms of media through the passage of time, and vcr was never going to stay with the evolution of technology. Our stories will not be kept in our architecture. It won't be found in our craftsmanship, or legends told from generation to generation.

Only the best, most advanced form of something lives on for the future to see. Probably why only the best art is still admired and appreciated

It takes hundreds, if not thousands of living, breathing individuals to create modern blockbusters. Sure modern movies are a spectecal, but have you even seen things like The Dark Crystal, Gremlins, Alien??? It takes artists countless hours of physical labor to create sets, costumes, scripts, sound, editing the film which back in the day, they literally used scissors to cut...handmade work that someone took time on in every aspect. Some of the oldest stories ever told like Beowulf or the Crucification of Christ are reshaped for modern audiences. Movies like O' Brother Where Art Thou take narratives hundreds of years old and reiterate them into completely new stories. New art. The past is a scar that reminds humanity of its triumphs and shortcomings, manifesting in our cultures as legends and myth, which will become the knowledge future generations thrive on. VHS tapes will never truly "die". Just as ar6cheologist continuously rediscover ancient artifacts, our gadgets and knickknacks will be admired with the same facination.

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