[Ultimate Civilization] Eternal Works

Author: JEFFI CHAO HUI WU

Time: 2025-8-19 Tuesday, 6:56 AM

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[Ultimate Civilization] Eternal Works

I often ponder why everything created by humanity will eventually disappear. Paper will decay, bookstores will close, websites will vanish, and friends will drift apart. Yet some things, once they enter the national archives, no longer belong to the transient but instead enter the long river of civilization. Trove has given me this opportunity; it acts like an invisible intelligence, quietly and steadfastly placing my work into the future.

I remember twenty years ago when I created the "Australian Wind Information Network" (www.australianwinner.com). At that time, it was just a platform for Chinese information. Initially, I wrote the code myself, maintained the server myself, and dealt with posts late into the night. Who would have thought that a small website founded by an international student would be permanently archived by the National Library of Australia? From then on, it became not just a website, but a testament to civilization. Even if I shut down the server and do not renew the domain name, it will still live on in Trove.

Immediately after, I created the "Australian Rainbow Parrot International Writers' Association" (www.azchy.com). At that time, I wanted to provide a platform for overseas Chinese writers, gathering writers scattered across various countries to leave behind our words. I designed the publication by myself, typeset it by myself, and the collected works came together to form the quarterly "Australian Rainbow Parrot." When I received the first printed issue of the quarterly, I thought to myself, this is just an attempt of mine. But when the National Library included it in their collection, I suddenly realized that this was no longer just a publication, but essential material for future scholars researching Australian Chinese literature. I never expected that my persistence would become a part of literary history.

Later, I continued to write articles,整理 my experiences and thoughts from decades. From martial arts to health preservation, from technology to philosophy, from logistics to music, from culture to communication, each field has my independent evidence. I know these articles will not be easily understood, but I still insist on writing. Until I decided to establish a new multilingual journal—"The Leap of Times" (www.times.net.au). This is a complete challenge; I completed the conception, writing, editing, typesetting, and uploading all by myself. I chose to publish in nine languages because I did not want my thoughts to be limited by any one language. After completing the Chinese, English, French, Spanish, Japanese, German, Russian, Portuguese, and Arabic versions, I uploaded them to Trove. At that moment, I knew it was no longer my journal, but a document of humanity.

The intelligence of Trove astonishes me. It is not a noisy social platform that determines value based on traffic. It acts like a calm recorder, quietly choosing what to include, assigning numbers to works, and placing them in a national archive. Its significance lies in the future. When all content on the internet is forgotten, it will still quietly lie there. Scholars can consult it, readers can cite it, and even if civilization is destroyed, it may become evidence for extraterrestrial archaeologists to reconstruct.

I know that many people do not understand this significance. Some think that writing articles is just for personal amusement, while others believe that publishing a magazine is merely a personal interest. But when my works entered Trove, they acquired another identity. They were no longer web pages that could disappear at any moment, but instead gained digital immortality. I look at the collection page on Trove and feel a sense of tranquility that transcends the personal.

My works are not isolated. The Longwind Information Network carries the information exchange of the Chinese community in Australia, the Rainbow Parrot Pen Club gathers the literary voices of overseas writers, the quarterly "Australian Rainbow Parrot" records twenty years of persistence and genuine feelings, while "The Leap of the Times" is a systematic summary of my decades-long journey, breaking disciplinary boundaries and directly entering the verification of civilization. These four works serve as four pillars, supporting my experiences and thoughts into a structure. Trove has anchored them in the future.

I often think that if one day human society really collapses, many books will be burned, many websites will disappear, and many memories will shatter. But Trove's digital preservation might survive. Even if it's just an electronic publication, it could become the only evidence of human thought for the future world to seek. This is not a romantic fantasy, but a realistic possibility.

So I am increasingly aware that everything I write is not just for contemporary people. I am leaving evidence for the future. I document the limits of martial arts to let people know the potential of the human body. I record breakthroughs in logistics to guide future enterprises in the direction of wisdom. I write down philosophy and dimensions to show the next generation another path. I even write down the trivialities of life because reality is the most powerful. And Trove will preserve this reality.

This is the work that endures. It transcends my personal life, transcends my circle of friends, transcends the algorithms of the times. It enters a larger structure. My experiences, my words, my publications are no longer scattered individuals, but part of the archive of civilization. Whenever I think of this, I feel that my persistence has not been in vain.

In the future, people may wonder: Is there really a person who can independently traverse so many fields over several decades? Is there really a person who can achieve global multilingual publishing without a team? The answer lies in Trove. It calmly and firmly proves that I do exist, and I have indeed done it.

I know I am not fighting against time, but against oblivion. My victory is not in defeating others, but in letting my work live on. While others leave only fleeting warmth, I leave behind eternal evidence.

So I can confidently say: my work has become an everlasting work.

Source: https://www.australianwinner.com/AuWinner/viewtopic.php?t=697255