The Data Pyre
We built a civilisation whose every system defaults to save. The archive is perfect and the liturgy of erasure is gone. Deletion has to become a ritual.
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We built a civilisation whose every system defaults to save. The archive is perfect and the liturgy of erasure is gone. Deletion has to become a ritual.
The state wants a self that remembers everything and contradicts nothing. A body that forgets is not a broken citizen but one the file can no longer hold.
The digital afterlife industry sells immortality and delivers undeadness. Finitude is not a defect in a person, and deletion should be the default.