signull's six-step 'civilizational amnesia loop' meme: fix becomes tradition, then forgotten
signulll · x · 2026-11-09
A widely shared aphorism by signull summarizing civilization's amnesia loop in six steps: notice a problem, invent a fix, turn the fix into tradition, forget what it was fixing, toss the tradition aside, rediscover the problem.
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