Laurie Anderson’s next manuscript to be locked away for 88 years

Lock it in a massive ice block that takes 88 years to melt. https://elephant.art/laurie-anderson-duets-on-ice-performanc...

I am not a fan of these super-natural art projects. It is one thing to make a statue that might stand for a thousand years ... or not. It is another to designate forest land and other resources, to attempt to lock them away from use by future generations.

The legal system dealt with this hundreds of years ago. We cannot have "dead hands" dictating how future generations should live and work. The proper vehicle for such things is government. Donate the land as a park or nature preserve and cross your fingers that your intent will be respected.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_against_perpetuities

A similar worry developed around the concept of compound interest. Some semi-rich people wanted to park money in bank accounts for a few generations in order to make thier great-grandkids into powerful people... with explicit instructions on how to use that money/power. Such multi-generation shenanigans are against the general public interest.

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We are so starved for aura we have to farm into the future now, I too would like to dine.

> At the end of the project, the full anthology of texts will be printed using paper made from trees from the Future Library forest

remind me in 88 years.

Also, file in “things that will never happen.”