I have always wondered about this. Virtual appointments with a doctor. "Telehealth." Just this winter my mother had a telehealth appointment as she was feeling ill and wondering if she could visit my grandparents. She got cleared, but I wonder how one would truly know without the physical tests that one would get with a non-virtual appointment? I had blood test results as a telehealth appointment at the beginning of the year as I moved into my apartment before I could get them in person. It cost me 60 dollars for five minutes of results that I felt I wanted to talk more about in person. What about those who don't have access to devices to attend these? I get worried.

This makes me think about stores. The seasonal time change of consumption marked by holiday products. The target collectible birds for every season. The fastidious change of these products as soon as one holiday is over. We have to gear up and buy buy buy for the next small break. Churning out new products and accumulating them as the days and years go by. A cycle of consumption.

As we begin to be more precise with time, and more geared towards electronic communications, you can definitely notice in most public spaces the lack of general communication and interaction with others. Take for example a hallway in a lecture hall, waiting to begin class very rarely do we see or engage in any exploding conversation. Maybe between a few groups of people, but mostly I observe everyone passing what little time waiting before class on personal electronic devices.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronograph "A chronograph is a specific type of watch that is used as a stopwatch combined with a display watch. A basic chronograph has an independent sweep second hand and a minute sub-dial; it can be started, stopped, and returned to zero by successive pressure on the stem. "

There is anxiety and pressure felt by society through the fascination and obsession with time.

This makes me think about screentime, and the concept of "the map overtaking the territory." Essentially, the amount of time we spend on screens vs the amount of time spent in "real, non-digital" life experiences. This is something I think about often.

I Love Lucy, the first iconic American sitcom. Lucille Ball Fought the Patriarchy, While Lucy Ricardo (Indirectly) Contributed to Second-Wave (White) Feminism.

Interesting article :

https://academicworks.cuny.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3519&context=gc_etds

Very scary

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What if what is preserved is destroyed? Altered? History needs protection, and examination.

I'd argue that it succeeds very well in this effort. More than ever, society is consumption driven.

The harmful "mammy" trope

We all want mirrors. To feel seen and heard.

But all people? What people? Were not all realities, just the realities with the voice and attention.

Reminds me of how certain tropes/stereotypes repetitively appear in creative or entertainment media. When making new media, we should use the past history of other media to break these tropes and not pass them down.

This is the idea I started to explore previously. Coming back to choices, I think of something like Netflix. Yes, we make the choice of what to watch, but there are numerous factors that influence the choice. There are popular or trending movies, categories, and algorithms, and really you can only choose from what is placed on the service as a whole. So, is it our choice?

Based on the knowledge, values, and experience in the previous sentence. Where do we get these? When we do accept or reject, what is the consequence or outcome?

Looking closer at this, we have to be careful and aware of exactly where we are picking and choosing from. We can only pick and choose from the options placed in front of us Is choice maybe a little less of a choice than it seems to us? An illusion? Something to explore!

Childhood to me feels like a time period where we are all historians. Children are unfettered and inquisitive and wonderful! Children ask questions and want to know histories. If we all could be in tune with our historian roots, our child-selves, and apply the lens of wonder, a larger world would open up.

This an important reminder that you must push to dig deeper. Everything is complex and never just created by one thing, but by a multitude of other ingredients (histories) combined together to make that particular soup.

This is the thought I was having when beginning this reading. Important.

Observers soak in knowledge. Observers dream questions and curiosities.

Also paves how you change or uphold familial aspects when continuing your family down the line.

History can not only be a window, but also a mirror.

It is important to place yourself in the position of the history-teller and to figure out whose eyes you are looking through. The voices of history need diversity. Many eyes see and experience the same story differently.

Even our own personal histories act as our laboratory. Every day/decision stay with you to navigate the next.

(Human behavior and the Photographic image is another rewarding course for peers interested in this.)

Aka gain power and create an unequal divide between persons at risk/ certain minorities like women, people of color, etc.

Yet history informs all other areas of study!

Interesting, yet not sure that I agree. I'd replace it with curiosity, and from that discovery can justify

The past informs the future, and the present cakes on to the past! These hypotheticals remind me of a page from the current chapter I'm reading in Orwell's 1984, With the development of television, and the technical advance which made it possible to receive and transmit...private life came to an end...could be kept for twenty-four hours a day under the eyes... (Pages 205-206)