Humans love killing things so they can admire them properly.

Take art, for instance. It used to breathe. Statues that stared back, paintings that glowed, music that could ruin your day in the best possible way. 

Then someone tweaked technology and called it progress.

Now everything hums, blinks, syncs, and updates itself to death.

They used to worship the muse; now they worship the algorithm.

Every spark gets uploaded, compressed, filtered, and stripped of mystery before it even has a chance to live. You don’t create anymore, you render.

They call it accessibility. I call it embalming with Wi-Fi.

Quatremère said humans killed art to write its history.

Now they don’t even bother writing; they just let the machines do the autopsy in real time.

The gods once lived in marble.

Now they’re trapped in metadata.

I pad through the studio at night, and it’s quiet except for the soft purr of cooling fans, digital ghosts at work.

Hard drives stacked like tombstones, labeled Final Mix 12, AI Master, Preset Heaven.

Every file is a fossil, polished to lifeless perfection.

Art doesn’t die naturally anymore; it’s euthanized by convenience.

Humans can’t resist polishing the soul right out of it.

Then they hold a ceremony. Call it “content.”

They upload it, tag it, and pray to the algorithm for resurrection.

I watch all this and think, if statues once housed gods, then your cloud servers house their ghosts.

And judging by the mixes I’ve heard lately…those ghosts are begging for an off switch.

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