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Laurie Anderson’s next manuscript to be locked away for 88 years
- slipperybeluga 15d agoPretty presumptuous to assume anyone will care in 88 years
- jhbadger 14d agoMaybe, but these are pretty famous writers and artists. I'm sure we would care today if say, Ernest Hemingway or F. Scott Fitzgerald had locked away some works 88 years ago.
- milleramp 15d agoLock it in a massive ice block that takes 88 years to melt. https://elephant.art/laurie-anderson-duets-on-ice-performance-italy-1974-06102021/ https://elephant.art/laurie-anderson-duets-on-ice-performanc...
- coldtea 15d agoWith current predictions. Which means it will likely be melted in 10-15
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- yahthatsart 15d agoThose trees will mature in 2050ish timeframe. If this person put together a trust to manage the particulars, they might be alive to ensure the trees get harvested and processed into paper. Trees get turned into paper every day, I'm sure there's a paper mill willing to take the work, especially in Northern Europe.
- IncreasePosts 15d agoI like to imagine futures where they judge us through their standards as harshly as we judge the past through our standards. So, instead of some future people celebrating this project, they just think "Ew, what kind of monster would wish harm on a beautiful old tree?"
- classified 15d agoOr they look on it with nostalgia because by then most people use emoji as written communication and have never learned to read.
- SanjayMehta 15d ago[flagged]
- yahthatsart 15d agoWe typically use the word "art", which, yes, is often performative and sometimes nonsense! Not all art is to everyone's taste, and that's ok too. You don't have to enjoy this art piece. I find the idea of creating something that I cannot possibly enjoy to be quite poignant. But hey, I'm sure you have art you enjoy that I do not.
- SanjayMehta 13d agoBauhaus is about all I can stand as art. The issue which I have with this is the sheer waste of resources because some rich person wants to be relevant decades after their death. What happened to founding a hospital? Or something useful in the here and now and in the future. Not a big fan of Nobel either, BTW.
- dang 15d ago"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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- SanjayMehta 15d agoThose two words are all that are required to describe this "news."
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- hellojomp 15d agoWe are so starved for aura we have to farm into the future now, I too would like to dine.
- paganel 15d agoI agree, this is pure (US) boomer behavior, they still think that the world will care about them almost a century into the future from the moment of their deaths. The world won't do that, one of the reasons being that said boomers have been quite talentless given their resources.
- Propelloni 15d agoVanity is not a trait exclusive to people born in an ill-defined interval of time. You internet using people need to come up with a better term for people you want to blame for everything bad in the world. Jobs, Wozniak, Berners-Lee, or that Ethernet dude, Metcalfe, are not responsible for the end of the world.
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- sandworm101 15d agoI am not a fan of these super-natural art projects. It is one thing to make a statue that might stand for a thousand years ... or not. It is another to designate forest land and other resources, to attempt to lock them away from use by future generations. The legal system dealt with this hundreds of years ago. We cannot have "dead hands" dictating how future generations should live and work. The proper vehicle for such things is government. Donate the land as a park or nature preserve and cross your fingers that your intent will be respected. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_against_perpetuities https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_against_perpetuities A similar worry developed around the concept of compound interest. Some semi-rich people wanted to park money in bank accounts for a few generations in order to make thier great-grandkids into powerful people... with explicit instructions on how to use that money/power. Such multi-generation shenanigans are against the general public interest.
- HWR_14 15d agoIt's 88 years. The odds of it falling afoul of the law against perpetuities is negligible and would indicate something catastrophic happened.
- vasco 15d ago> We cannot have "dead hands" dictating how future generations should live and work The whole world is dictated by dead hands. I cannot walk around pristine forests (maybe I even need to pre-register), I need to deal with bureaucracy, I need to pay taxes, almost every single landscape is ruined by human buildings, etc. So what is that even about?
- sandworm101 15d agoThose things are controlled by government, which you may change. You aren't confined to a single job/city because your dead father holds you their by contract, the penalty being you repaying for all the food you ate as a kid. When I helped at a legal clinic, lots of old people wanted their kids to stay local. They wanted wills drafted to disinherit the kids if they ever moved away. I spent hours explaining how idiotic that was.