living history

Nov 09, 2008 23:28

Planes flying into buildings!
Voting for the first black President!

I didn't think witnessing the exciting milestones of history would ever be so annoying.
I find it unnecessary that CNN has thanked me for sharing this moment with them
As if the almost instantaneous knowledge of events changes my involvement with them.

History its self is a fantastic fable. One that I am neither enchanted by nor the author of.
"Living in history" serves no purpose but to imagine a conceptual future in which we will still believe in our same horror or exultation immediately felt.
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