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Impermanence

I saw screenshots of this Tumblr post and agree with it:

I think a lot about how we as a culture have turned “forever” into the only acceptable definition of success.

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I just think that something can be good, and also end, and that thing was still good. And it’s okay to be sad that it ended, too. But the idea that anything that ends is automatically less than this hypothetical eternal state of success… I don’t think that’s doing us any good at all.

Literally nothing on this planet will last forever, and I bet that other folks interested in permaculture and permacomputing understand the limits of those “permas”. The practice of regenerative agriculture, or choosing to keep old computer parts running as long as possible, make much safer assumptions about how long things can last than “soil mining” and planned obsolescence.

—2022-05-02T16:01Z

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