They are forgotten much like Greek Gods and myths. Yet, just like those myths and Greek Gods etched in the stars as constellations, their impact in either our culture, sub-culture, and popular culture are still with us. But throughout this past year I have found hardly a soul my generation or younger that has ever heard of any of them. It's because of our society.
In our society bank tellers are replaced by machines. Board games are replaced by video games. Books have been replaced by television. The common thread here? A screen. A screen is replacing imagination and taking away the human element. The screen now does all. The mind no longer builds a movie within itself when reading a book but, is now spoon fed the images to it.
Though the screen is a great medium because many human and imaginative stories have been told from the screen. There are many who have used the screen to get their idea across when their ideas wouldn't be heard anywhere else. But a screen shouldn't be only thing we should be exposed to. We're taking the human element out of everything we do now. And because of this we are forgetting everything else because of the screen.
Thus, I give you the forgotten. But they're not truly forgotten. Not at all. And I want it to stay that way. I want them to be remembered because they're worth remembering. It's just the culture we live in and what we're exposed to that has pushed the "forgotten" aside. These people (some are considered the epitome of master in their respective fields) are artists, thinkers, story tellers, philosophers, and... you'll find out.
Let me tell you about them in hopes they're never truly forgotten and a new generation can discover who and what they are.
