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[Note: This was written during the Pandemic and published years later ... I need an editor.] It's been a time.  A long time. I'd like to say it's been a Silence of Three Parts, but Rothfuss be damned if we get the Third Silence.  Apparently, he pole vaulted the public consciousness into the realms of knowing.  The pentaverate has bestowed upon him knowledge of futures past and, using this wisdom, chose to wither rather than write.  So be it.  Kvothe has failed us and VVhynot? But I digress, giving way to the topic at hand.  A pandemic of epic, 100 year proportions has levied its tax on humanity.  We first became hermits, eking out life as cave dwellers separated from life normal.  We transitioned to masked foragers on occasion only to face similarly troubled masked bandits in search of life's necessities.  Pupating, we moved through lockdowns and forced closures to emerge mask free with life seemingly back on track. We have wings.  Thro...
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VVhatever to VVhyNot?

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It occurred to me days past that we've transitioned as a society.  This transition took place sometime in the mid-to-late 2000's, although some people experienced bits of this transition shortly after the calendar revealed that the 2000's would not indeed end the world (or at least the banking world). Prior to the transition was a movement defined by a lack of care. The tag of this movement was elegantly expressed in the hieroglyphics of our time - the whatever emoji  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ . This VVhatever movement was a time when people stopped caring, and thus formed no coherent movement, except to express that everything was copacetic no matter the result.  In the heady days of the VVhatever movement, we spawned a level of interconnection oriented toward "everything goes" that has led to mass adoption of the Internet.  The primary focus was on tolerance, no matter the consequence.  Because - "whatever." Indeed, society has now formulated rules for the Inter...
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