Humans evolved from primitive beings typically classified as hunter-gatherers. Evolved is a generous term because once the act of seeking out a desirable life-giving object and storing that life-giving object was imprinted into the DNA of the Species, there was no giving up the impulse. It survived from the moment a wise proto-woman saw a stack of berries and considered something so profound that it changed the behavior of her familial unit and all her progeny for millions of years. She saved those berries for Later. From that original action came boxes of various shapes and dimensions and with temperature controls for preservation of all life-giving objects discovered and plucked from the earth as well as from the imagination. Many ate well and at leisurely times, which had never happened before. Time prior to that was full of anxiety, overfull bellies, toothaches, and gastrointestinal variables, because eating and pleasure only existed in the present moment. There was no real concept of Later then, so everyone lived in a panic, devouring and fucking on urges that were not orderly. Fortunately, order did arrive, along with silos and refrigeration units and barrels and Tupperware and canning jars and ziplock bags. Later was commodified and sold in order to fill it with objects not yet needed but painstakingly arranged for. With the concept of Later came the perversion of More. Early humankind clearly had a keen sense of More. They always wanted More: more food, more water, more sex, more reasons to war for food, water, and sex. It wasn’t complicated, but once Later entered their consciousness, the limits of More widened to hazardous extremes. Later had to be filled with More and Later, an abstract concept with no concrete parameters and that possessed a special range to hold endless junk and garbage or essential items that would eventually wither into junk and garbage. The perversion of More did not simply end with decay but also eroded the simple act of sharing. With limitless space in the future, there was little room left in the present to gauge how much was too much to keep for Later and to spare for others. And so humanity began to hoard. Oh, how they hoarded. Not just fruits of summer to last through a cold winter, but they hoarded everything, all the bits of detritus they could see and touch and fit into Later. They wanted More: more makeup, more comic books, money, allergy medicine, armies, court justices, cities, aqueducts, money, peanut butter, toilet paper, canning lids, duct tape, money, freeze-dried lasagna, blankets, and toy poodles. They took More and exploded themselves into panicked, depressed, fidgety, twitching things. They understood too late the solution to the perversion of more: Too Much. The notion of Too Much became law and culture and was taught to children in nursery rhymes and half-minute digital advertisements. Commerce was god and all prayed diligently. When they did discover the revolutionary idea of having too much, they had already taken too much to give back. Decay does not work backward in these instances. (Plurk Paste)

Humans evolved from primitive beings typically classified as hunter-gatherers. Evolved is a generous term because once the act of seeking out a desirable life-giving object and storing that life-giving object was imprinted into the DNA of the Species, there was no giving up the impulse. It survived from the moment a wise proto-woman saw a stack of berries and considered something so profound that it changed the behavior of her familial unit and all her progeny for millions of years. She saved those berries for Later. From that original action came boxes of various shapes and dimensions and with temperature controls for preservation of all life-giving objects discovered and plucked from the earth as well as from the imagination. Many ate well and at leisurely times, which had never happened before. Time prior to that was full of anxiety, overfull bellies, toothaches, and gastrointestinal variables, because eating and pleasure only existed in the present moment. There was no real concept of Later then, so everyone lived in a panic, devouring and fucking on urges that were not orderly. Fortunately, order did arrive, along with silos and refrigeration units and barrels and Tupperware and canning jars and ziplock bags. Later was commodified and sold in order to fill it with objects not yet needed but painstakingly arranged for. With the concept of Later came the perversion of More. Early humankind clearly had a keen sense of More. They always wanted More: more food, more water, more sex, more reasons to war for food, water, and sex. It wasn’t complicated, but once Later entered their consciousness, the limits of More widened to hazardous extremes. Later had to be filled with More and Later, an abstract concept with no concrete parameters and that possessed a special range to hold endless junk and garbage or essential items that would eventually wither into junk and garbage. The perversion of More did not simply end with decay but also eroded the simple act of sharing. With limitless space in the future, there was little room left in the present to gauge how much was too much to keep for Later and to spare for others. And so humanity began to hoard. Oh, how they hoarded. Not just fruits of summer to last through a cold winter, but they hoarded everything, all the bits of detritus they could see and touch and fit into Later. They wanted More: more makeup, more comic books, money, allergy medicine, armies, court justices, cities, aqueducts, money, peanut butter, toilet paper, canning lids, duct tape, money, freeze-dried lasagna, blankets, and toy poodles. They took More and exploded themselves into panicked, depressed, fidgety, twitching things. They understood too late the solution to the perversion of more: Too Much. The notion of Too Much became law and culture and was taught to children in nursery rhymes and half-minute digital advertisements. Commerce was god and all prayed diligently. When they did discover the revolutionary idea of having too much, they had already taken too much to give back. Decay does not work backward in these instances.

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