005. Text // my world is unaffected

[manufactured]

It's been some time since Retrospec has properly dropped some sort of identity crisis on us, though I suppose it's good to know that we're getting a bit more information out of them now than we were in the past; I'm in no way looking down on small favors and silver linings. Just the same, I wonder for the time being where that leaves us - I know I've asked a few of you about this in the past, and I'm sure that a fair amount of you have made your decisions regarding it since.

I suppose what I want to hear is your thoughts on these people you're receiving memories of, whether you consider them "you" or otherwise - do you still think of them as a separate person from yourself or do you consider them to be the same as "you", and why you've come to feel that way. I'm not going to argue for feeling one way or another on the matter, I'm just wondering how you've come to see these people that technically don't exist anymore.

Of course, if you reject this entire matter completely and just consider this to be an example of some corporate entity you hate ruining your life for no apparent reason, that's likewise fair.

I've formed my own views on this fairly recently; I tend to find it calming, having some sort of conclusion that I can accept as reasonably true for the time being. It's not always convenient, but it's calming.

Comments

[parodeity]

one of my "powers" although i dont know if youd consider it that typically
is a really exact sense of time
which helps with chronology to some degree
assuming it was active in whatever memory i had
or well
i guess its even less that
and just i remember enough to piece the bizarre story together

either way this seems like a fairly expected continuation of that bc it makes little to no sense
and also people got reset a few times back then so like
this may as well fucking happen

[manufactured]

...Honestly, "this may as well happen" has been something of a recurring theme lately, Retrospec or otherwise.

[parodeity]

i think its like the main theme of life in general
it just takes some people a little longer than others to hit that point of truth

[manufactured]

Not for some, in my experience.

[parodeity]

what do you mean

[manufactured]

Some people have entirely too much ambition for that; some people are just naive and content with everything that life throws at them. Either way, the realization never comes.

[parodeity]

oh i guess
i imagine its a thing most network people are gonna hit someday though
past lives and weird bullshit tend to help out

[manufactured]

That's true enough; I imagine they'll either resign themselves or become angry, it's just a matter of seeing which side hits critical mass first.

[parodeity]

do you have any real preference as to which

[manufactured]

[It's...jarring, honestly, to realize that he does.]

That depends on what we find to be worth getting angry about.

[parodeity]

like as a group or individually

[manufactured]

If Retrospec manages to upset us as a group, then I'd argue that they deserve whatever happens next. But that's largely the point, I suppose - if something happens to anger all of us on a citywide scale, then something is going to happen that isn't just complacency with the situation.

[parodeity]

rather than just upsetting a subset of the population?
yeah i guess