THE ASSEMBLY
The Fragility of Memory: Illusory Discoveries and the Thousand-Year Opportunity
Reptiliandude critiques humanity’s reliance on “borrowed” technology and “flickering lights,” warning that the species’ dependence on external devices rather than internal wisdom makes its knowledge base incredibly fragile. He argues that human “discoveries” are illusory and could be lost in a single moment, especially as society mocks oral traditions and neglects the proper letters required to pass down sustainable knowledge. Highlighting the “collective amnesia” that causes humanity to forget its former grandeur and repeated tragic losses, he questions if the species is capable of original thought while it continues to deny its own history of hubris. Despite this grim assessment, Garbotalk expresses a desire for humanity to have the opportunity to “stand on our own two feet” once the Assembly intervenes, viewing a thousand-year grace period as a vital chance to finally stabilize the species.
THE ASSEMBLY
The Fragility of Memory: Illusory Discoveries and the Thousand-Year Opportunity
Reptiliandude critiques humanity’s reliance on “borrowed” technology and “flickering lights,” warning that the species’ dependence on external devices rather than internal wisdom makes its knowledge base incredibly fragile. He argues that human “discoveries” are illusory and could be lost in a single moment, especially as society mocks oral traditions and neglects the proper letters required to pass down sustainable knowledge. Highlighting the “collective amnesia” that causes humanity to forget its former grandeur and repeated tragic losses, he questions if the species is capable of original thought while it continues to deny its own history of hubris. Despite this grim assessment, Garbotalk expresses a desire for humanity to have the opportunity to “stand on our own two feet” once the Assembly intervenes, viewing a thousand-year grace period as a vital chance to finally stabilize the species.
Image: Memories (Photo by ian dooley via Unsplash)
Source: RD, "All About the Assembly" r/reptiliandude, Reddit, (16 August 2017) https://www.reddit.com/r/reptiliandude/comments/6u2mx6/all_about_the_assembly/
Reptiliandude: When that ‘dam breaks,’ as you so eloquently put it…
Within a thousand years, you will have forgotten your own past and embraced that collective amnesia you are so well-renowned for.
What could truly be called new here, save for your dependence upon flickering lights and memories which you summon into your hands rather than from your hearts and your heads?
These trinkets are not even your own… They are borrowed, and your so-called discoveries and ownership of them is but illusory.
And you can lose them all in-a-single-brief-moment…
How will you pass down any sustainable knowledge, if all that matters to your leadership is what sort of things promote spending and incurred debt?
Oral tradition is mocked, proper letters too much trouble to learn…
All it would take is but the toss of a stone, and the result would be the loss of an epoch.
Look around you…
The evidence of your formal grandeur is right there, crumbling and forgotten.
Those who seek to raise it up to remind you of your hubris and vulnerability are mocked and marginalized.
Are you really capable of ruling over your own with any semblance of original thought or purpose when you willingly deny how many times you’ve tragically lost it all?
I ponder these things often…
Garbotalk: I would like the opportunity for us to try to stand on our own two feet, once the Assembly rights the ship.
A thousand years to get it together would be wonderful.
