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There is a Clock ringing deep inside a mountain. It is a huge Clock, hundreds of feet tall, designed to tick for 10,000 years. Every once in a while the bells of this buried Clock play a melody. Each time the chimes ring, it’s a melody the Clock has never played before. The Clock’s chimes have been programmed to not repeat themselves for 10,000 years. Most times the Clock rings when a visitor has wound it, but the Clock hoards energy from a different source and occasionally it will ring itself when no one is around to hear it. It’s anyone’s guess how many beautiful songs will never be heard over the Clock’s 10 millennial lifespan.
It really makes me happy that people are building things on scales like this today. People used to build and pay for cathedrals even though they might not see them completed.
If we had more of these kinds of projects, we might start to have a culture that cared more about how and why things are done. Now you either get rich or famous or you aren't doing something important.