Then Next Comes
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Published 2024-08-11
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Pointless bonus trivia:
There's a great BBC series from a while back called A History of the World in 100 Objects – big recommend. A few years ago I was sat around being useless and miserable in my apartment and suddenly got the idea to do A History of the Future in 100 Objects instead, a scifi story from the perspective of a museum looking back on a million years of history – it seemed like a fun inversion of the original format. I worked on the script for a few weeks and almost liked it, but couldn't find the 'hook' for the thing and it fell apart like most silly ideas do.
A few years went by and I got a bit depresso and self-pitying about no new fun ideas turning up, and decided to go through some old scripts to see if there was anything else worth going back to. It all sucked, usual derivative rehashed ya de ya da. Then I stumbled on the museum thing again. It was a bit like getting a sudden unexpected and frankly undeserved tax rebate. With a few years of distance it was all terribly exciting for some reason, and when I tried to tie it up this time it more or less wrote itself when I got out of its way. I don't know why writing is like this sometimes, but it is often like this sometimes. It only operates on its own terms, and the more you order it to work, the less it cooperates. Sometimes things finish themselves in a day, sometimes they take a few years of not looking directly at them, sometimes they never pan out and it's never obvious why. Also I notice a guy called Adrian Hon already wrote A GODDAMN BOOK called The Future in 100 Objects in 2013, years before I started thinking about any of this, and I'm sure it's a great read and I hope he gets scurvy.
And as ever, your mystery link: • f the police.
P.S - Sorry I was away a while. A new book is almost ready if that's something you care about but it took a spot of thinking offline for a bit. You'll be pleased to hear it's even more pretentious than the last ones.
The cat sends her regards. Is that a new haircut by the way? It really suits you if I may say so.
All Comments (21)
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"Shhhh...He's gonna say his first words!" "Bullshit cancelling headphones"
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I cant believe he spent 8 months building a time machine to warn us about the future
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The prequel to "and then we'll be okay" EDIT: IT LITTERALY ENDED WITH A RANDOM AMBIGIOUS LADY ON A MOUNTAIN WISER THEN EVERYONE
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This is not mere content for likes or profit, this is modern art, Philosophical mind coitus expressed in poetic storytelling, his words are hand picked like crotchets in a symphony that pierces your soul so deeply that you discover new depths yourself. Exurb1a you are undoubtedly one of the most brilliant minds humankind has ever produced, one in a trillion. ..........what......next?
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I love how every sentence of this is a plot for a 3 hour film
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Born too late to explore Antarctica, but too early to do whatever was said in this video
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Exurb1a just went to the same club as Sam O’ Nella 😅 and just like that, he’s back.
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WHY is there NEVER a video you post, or a book you write, that I can finish without goosebumps or a new outlook. My mother as a child would always tell me to take the time to just be, and just like them it took me until a few years ago to start to get it, and you just summed it up for everyone to understand in minutes. Keep up the great work man, ill always be the biggest supporter from the sidelines. also wanted to note, my mother fuckin loved this
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HE REMEMBERED HIS PASSWORD 🤯
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13:13 "And soon they forget they were ever human, just as humans forgot they were ever fish." What an incredible thought.
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Damn. I needed this. It’s weird how I started rewatching your videos and suddenly you make a new one. Thank you
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I cannot express what this made me feel. I will need to listen to it again, calmly, and maybe write a bit around his ideas. What a person. He's so good at being.
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Oh shit. The turtle of existential dread is back!
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This is art, philosophy and poetry consumed in a 21st century way.
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“Your cynical certainty reveals your youth”. this was a humbling statement to hear. Amazingly though provoking
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Horrors and Living (a poem I wrote one time about a similar topic to this) Myriad of consciousness... In the future, people will be liquid, or generated; Death and Life will mean nothing And perhaps neither will the sun and moon Grass and trees replaced by wires Florescent nightmares of flesh and steel Neural mysteries and bleeding dreams; And from this, Time will keep going on. Eternally. There's no end, no beginning; After humanity rots and something else arises, And after they rot, too. Ouroborus' corpse will be eaten by another snake; A conquerer worm dies and then is fed upon. Angels dragged down and die, For the thing above them in the hierarchy, And the same occuring with demons. The endless ladder of existence never topples; Horrors forever written. But the experience of life will go on The stories worlds forge and creative development As long as that real heart keeps beating, The world is true.
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Not until Next buys me dinner first.
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"A wheel for the cart, a cart for the road, a lamp for the dark, and gloves for the cold" That little simple line felt infinitely significant to me, and I've no idea why.
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"and then next comes.." nothing ,that is such a brilliant way to end it
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I think this video is connected to the "and then we'll be ok" one, it's beautiful to think that we would go that far and think that we learned everything kust to realize that we really know nothing. This is a beautiful video and a great comeback!
