Not all things end.

The first radio signals sent by man for example, they still reverberate out into radial space, and will continue to do so for eternity, and every signal sent after this has followed the same tendency: continue forever.

Life itself though could be one of those things that “ends”. Tendencies aside, life’s resilience in all spaces could be wiped out in its entirety in some cosmic instance,or through some long gruesome, grinding, painful process. Either way, it’s our signals of communication which are near impossible to extinguish completely, to catch up with and track down, to eliminate without a trace, the task becomes almost impossible on many levels. If life finds a way, it’s communication that we’re looking for, stumbling through the darkness. Our legacy and most beastly of roots, from grunts to scripture, the language of man, the horns of despair, this is the way, says Habermas. So while we might expire, our communications will live on forever, constantly waiting for those willing to listen, the loop isn't complete without a receiver afterall, trees falling in forests n whatnot.

There's been a disruption in the flow of information. The Trust loop from source to citizen has been blown out into a million little pipelines, tilted lying still on the ground with the rest.

Newspapers, daytime talk shows, nighttime talk shows, radio broadcasts, magazines, all mediums that once held the trusted respect of the citizen in the recent past, and each one now struggling to hang on to any kind of relevance in the current era. These mediums haven’t disappeared completely, instead transforming into their digital counterparts, splitting apart into countless reflections on the path from continuous to discrete, showing bare for a moment how primal and real the inner workings of these information systems really are, and it humbled everyone that caught a glimpse, shook them loose for a bit. Then the digital versions of these avenues thrived in a way their plastic predecessors never could have dreamt. For decades it was a veritable information paradise, individuals being able to find any information they could think of, online, open source. Trust was built not in reputation alone, but through a networking consensus between users, who would be able to cross-reference every piece of information independently. The internet hive mind would begin to flex their investigative muscles as well, becoming the place where new information breaks, far more just an archive of information from the past, it becomes an integral part of the information feedback loop at large. It was a glorious time, a nostalgic one remembered fondly by users of every server.

Something seems to have shifted since then though. We’re somewhere new now…