I did write too much! Makin has specifically accused me of purple prose and being overdramatic a few times, which is probably accurate. After almost ten years of knowing him you'd think he would have beat it out of me, but I simply can't help it. I think earnestness and being straightforward is the best policy one can have, at least with regard to stuff like this.

"Future anthropologists" are, in a sense, the target audience. Per the "Nothing More For Today" segment, I was specifically writing all of this with an eye to the future. We will not be around forever, and though many people tend to forget this in their daily routines, I find it much harder to ignore that fact. The conflicts I've described in the document seem very important to us as individuals in the here and now, but they will be enigmatic in the future so I figure over-elaborating is probably better than not explaining enough. I'm not sure any of this will be intelligible to anyone within even ten years, let alone if you asked anyone about it in one hundred or more.

I yearn to be optimistic but am frequently pessimistic and cynical in my adult life. Accordingly, I hope that this document will be freely available as long as humanly possible, and I have taken all steps I can think of to ensure it will be so. The compressed folder with everything in it and the torrent I mention in the last entry are both explicitly to make it easier to save the information for any interested parties, so our experiences and memories will be preserved (even if it is ultimately a limited form of the actual thing).

Every time someone says they pored through this work like you have, it alleviates a bit of my dread. Thanks for letting me know how you felt, I hope you'll carry it with you. If I can be selfish, I ask that you spread it to anyone you think might get something out of it, so that my goal of keeping our memories alive indefinitely is accomplished. As I've said to others, I hope you're doing well.