LRG

An LRG microfiction

The Great Forgetting

What we lost, and how we lost it

The end came when we had turned almost every surface, every structure, every material into a storage medium for the immortal mega-rich.

Our blood, genes and brains used as arrays for mindless emoji strewn memes we didn’t care to understand. Our fruitless hopes to become one of them diminished with every cat video.

The war to reclaim ourselves will be known as the great forgetting. We only have to remember what we’re fighting for.


Originally posted on Dec 19, 2017 on https://mastodon.social/@toychicken/99203548569530969mastodon.social

Cover image: Demotic script on a replica of the rosetta stone on display in Magdeburg, by Chris 73, CC‑by‑SA 3.0 - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DemoticScriptsRosettaStoneReplica.jpgcommons.wikimedia.org