Conditional Reality

Year 1: All our histories are intact. Year -10: Our memories have a few frayed edges. Year -100: Serious decay sets in. We question reports from the frontiers of cognition. Year -1,000: We find it necessary to suppress all our inner voices. The voices leave us and form their own robust society. Year -10,000: We see rock, smoke, rain, and lightning. We prefer to close our eyes. Year -100,000: No one can say how many of us there are. We await the ability to count. Year -1,000,000: We construct a web for the future. We have nothing, but want everything.

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