Inertia

 we have given ourselves the impression that we can arrest time, that we can control the forces of nature. museums keep artifacts preserved as long as possible, they store them in dry cool cabinets for as long as possible. we believe we can create immutable things, language has given us the concepts, the illusion that we can arrest time. as a result we believe there is nothing left to control anymore, except ourselves, we have turned inwards because in our consciousness is still the remains of some mysterious force that cannot be controlled. but soon we will have that under control as well. we used to be much more in awe of the forces of nature, we read into them something divine,  we spoke to them through our prayers, like we supplicated our gods. everything around us reminded us of change of the inevitability of death, of the cycles, of mutability. now everything reminds us of staticness, of inertia,,and whatever change there is it is controlled measurable calculable by man. the question is whether this obsession with arresting time is healthy? what kind of  a person would we turn into if we had the ability to live our memories over again? would we not end up deranged? obsessively and constantly replaying the past over again to remind us of things or to escape the present? in the future, once we connect to the cloud or upload our minds, our sense of time will change. we will be able to escape the present and live in the past, we will be able to arrest a period of time and live in it forever. some people might choose to exist as babies for ever, some people might choose to exist as kids. many people will be interacting with each other with different speeds of time occurring simultaneously.

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