Artifact I

“We are that strange species that constructs artefacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting.”
— William Gibson
Neither memory nor knowledge defines who we are.
Yet we are so eager to leave behind at least something.
An object.
A trace.
A testimony.
Something desperately expected to survive both memory and forgetting.
The question is not whether artefacts preserve memory.
The question is whether preservation achieves what we think it does.
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And the question remains:
Do we really need to remember?