What if??

We save our photos digitally to save them from fire, fading, water damage, but what would happen if there was no more electricity?  What would happen to our pasts, our memories of people and childhood?  There would be no more hardcopy.  We would be thrown back to a time when we relied on our ancestors stories, recollections, and exaggerations of times gone by, of the fish that was let go.  Would we panic as each memory faded?  Would we rush to have paintings made of our dead Mothers and Fathers and siblings and old lovers?  Would we wail and moan about our loss of history, and use this as an excuse to kill others for making us lose our past?  We are in a age where things are done for us, and if there was no electricity, would we simply start to fade ourselves?  First a leg, then an arm, then perhaps our senses – sense of smell, taste, those senses linked to memory  – like in PerfectSense, where only love survives in the end.  Devastating to think about.