[albatross]

Information has been lost and reconstituted for as long as civilization has existed (and longer).

Short of preserving the actual experience, all of what we perceive to have experienced is filtered through a lens of one kind or another (be it historical, memory, or something else) and reconstituted.

I trained in school as a photographer, and it took me a long time to learn to set my camera down and experience life as it happened around me rather than to preserve it for later. Do our Instagram photos preserve anything for us, or do they just facilitate a flawed reconstruction of our past that we somehow value as "better" or more accurate than our memories provide?