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May 8, 2017

"I thought she'd disappear," referring to Hillary and boy was he wrong.

Nothing goes away any more.

Perhaps these toxins are building up because the Information age has made memes unkillable. Causes, from Vichy to the Resistance have achieved virtual immortality. Communism will never die and Hillary runs in 3020. At least in the pre-Internet age things went out of scope and even Hiter died and was forgotten. Today there is no garbage collection in the public space. Objects persist forever or at least until the operating system runs out of memory. Even ISIS is expected to live on after it's battlefield death to go underground like Camus' plague bacillus until ... well that's the problem. Nobody is quite sure what "until" means. - - Until

Posted by gerardvanderleun at May 8, 2017 7:49 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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