#archivisim

It’s one that people very well may dislike me for having.

See, I believe that anything ad everything ever uploaded to the internet should be archived. From the shittiest of homestuck slash fics to the modern masterworks in excess of a million words. The most gruesome of images and the cutest of kitens. The most vile, hatefilled monologues and the most loving statements.

Anything and everything, preserved and archived and catalogued and translated every which way.

All our lows, all our highs, all our middlings too. Everything should remain, so we can look back and see our successes and failures.

We have, for once, something that can keep up with and accurately track the societal, cultural, religious and technological development of our species.

And we have done nothing with it. We toss countless volumes of information across our world as pictures and words, and all of it is just detritus. Nothing to be preserved. Nothing to be remembered.

I believe all of it is. I believe we should keep it all, to map humanity as a species.

The single pixel image you sent your groupchat, the darkest revenge fantasy ever posted to Ao3, the grossest of abuses documented by enactors and saviours and survivors, the most vile and the most beautiful things we have done, the greatest of technological breakthroughs.

All of it is equally worthy of preservation. All of it is unfathomably important one way or another.

And all of it, as things are, will be lost.

We have already lost so much of our history.

This issue's interviewees are @night-at-the-musian and @retrobr!

@eddiethecowboy and @thevintageducky also feature

Find it here: https://natmsearch.neocities.org/newsletter/TNGNsm24.pdf

Hope you all enjoy!

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