Anyone got a good (sad) picture of a certain large boat? With the captain, and the band?

[Leopolds Ghost]

Which is based on a true story, BTW. :cry:

I don't know if I'm going down with the ship but it depresses me to see so many people who are.

And it depresses me even worse to realize that people will not remember or be concerned about the people who leave every time a site is updated because it is true of all sites -- it is true of everything -- human society is a vast engine for lost and discarded institutional memory. Who will remember those who aren't here when the only people who remember them also aren't here?

Who will remember all the lost conversations, lost art, lost cities when we are gone? With the electronicization of communications, it doesn't even take a natural disaster to lose all trace of our existence once our children are gone, since there's no organized effort to prevent a massive loss of community shared/oral/written history even here and now, and web archiving is geared only towards protecting commercial content and discarding that which cannot be sold.

All of which is a long-winded way of saying that many of us will not be missed on DU3 and those of us who have already made the transition have "been through all this before" with the constant turnover in membership between each election cycle. It seems to be inherent in human memory that, if we can't see it, the anthropic principle applies and it ceases to have any meaning... All those unremembered or unloved DUers...



LOOK UPON MY WORKS, YE MIGHTY, AND DESPAIR!

I'd still like to occupy, and maybe turn GD2 into something that can be preserved -- a working model, you might say. Like Williamsburg for oughties progressives. What do you think?

Also, please comment on my MIC CHECK thread, if you get the chance -- http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2465625

[Fumesucker]

1. This too shall pass..

Ashes to ashes and dust to dust, in the long run we are all just dust in the wind.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wp4O7v5320

[Leopolds Ghost]

2. So, Fumesucker, are you "occupying" with us? :-)

[pmorlan1]

3. Sad but true

What was the reason for changing the website? I've been on the new website and it's not set up as well as this one. Pity. Maybe they just wanted to weed out people before the election?