The Eternal Flame vs. The Final Burn: A Responsibility Test
No comments = death. Each reply resets the clock.
The rule is clear: one comment every 25 hours, or this message dies.
This thread has the potential to be eternal and reach millions of people, but only if each of us takes responsibility for not letting the counter reach zero. It's a metaphor for our world: it exists as long as we care.
Just as burning hydrocarbons consumes in seconds what took the Earth millions of years to create, our digital apathy can erase this space for reflection in an instant. Every minute the counter ticks down without a response is like smoke lost in the atmosphere: an opportunity consumed and never returned.
Keep the conversation going. Will we be the generation that kept the message alive, or the one that, out of sheer inertia, let it disappear among the ashes of what could have been?
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Let's build a protopic civilization and try to solve our sustainability and justice issues for the good of all
I don’t really understand what this is, but I’ll leave a comment and reset the clock anyway. It’s at 16 hours. What does it reset to? Guess I’ll find out.
Help old people with tech and also help them figure out issues themselves otherwise you will get woken up at 5 am in the morning for the most mundane tech problems ever.
burn baby burn - everything is connected, we just forget sometimes. Never stop believing that. I still have hope.
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