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(-Article-) The “stories to be told while walking,” I feel were the best indicator of the change of our spacial conception of the world. Where Aborigines try to keep alive multi-generational traditional walking stories, that require days to fully tell, while travel time is reduced to a small fraction of the appropriate time. The stories are still told while traveling, but rapidly sped up, condensed, and harder to grasp to an outsider.

The only way the stories are kept in their original form is at night, while they are recited in order for them to be remembered. The reverse here, where the traveling has become less real than the recitation of the old stories, has taken place over a relatively short period of time. In such a short period a culture cannot change as fast as new forms of transportation or systems of roads take to implement. There is a trade of speed for culture. A trade that doesn’t seem ideal by any means.