Personal videos are good for creating externalized memory, so you can store your precious memories outside yourself, preserving them forever.
Personal videos are bad for creating externalized memory, where your memories were first experienced through a filter of the act of recording it, therefore weakening it to begin with and therefore not worth saving or externalizing.
Watching a fireworks show makes a better, more deeply impressioned memory than watching my phone screen recording a fireworks show.
Personal videos are good for creating externalized memory, so you can store your precious memories outside yourself, preserving them forever.
Personal videos are bad for creating externalized memory, where your memories were first experienced through a filter of the act of recording it, therefore weakening it to begin with and therefore not worth saving or externalizing.
Watching a fireworks show makes a better, more deeply impressioned memory than watching my phone screen recording a fireworks show.
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