Micah,
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Maybe this is, you say potato and I say potatoe. But I say, you and I
actually do share the exact same memories of Viet Nam in ways that have
never in history been possible. There is old news footage and still images.
Have you seen Platoon, Full Metal Jacket, Born on the Fourth of July, The
Dearhunter? How many songs in the soundtrack of Apocalypse Now were familiar
to you? Woodstock, Easy Rider. How about Kent State and CSN&Y's Four Way
Street album?
How many stupid burglar videos are on YouTube? Many of the memories you and
I share about VietNam, 911, the moon landing, the Super Bowl, the season
ending of Lost are all experienced in nearly identical fashion.
Not only that but search engines make access to this information nearly
instantaneous. You don't have to watch television in real time anymore. If
you missed the season ending of Lost you can rent it from NetFlix or buy it
in Walmart.
These memories are not collected anywhere. We each have to seek them out but
there are more of them and they are easier to get ever in history. This is
an expansion of consciousness and collective awareness beyond anything the
giants we are standing on could ever have imagined.
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