Here's something even sadder. We only need history because human lives are so short.
I don't see that as sad. Also, even if we lived four hundred years we'd still need to write things down because we'd eventually die.
In 150 years historians will be lamenting that we recorded everything we did and now they have to sift through terrabytes of memes, pointless arguments, and outright misdirection to get at anything resembling truth.
Sometimes, when hiking, I'll see something incredible, and when I go to capture it in a photo, it just doesn't come out the same.
Those vistas are allllll for me
The photo will never replicate the experience, but you can use it as a cue to go back to that place in your mind!
Agreed. Partially. I find myself looking back at pics and experiencing something much different.
Similarly, I can retrace a route again and see things I completely missed before. Memory is fun :)
“In a way [my undertaking] is an entirely original science. In fact, I have not come across a discussion along these lines anywhere. I do not know if this is because people have been unaware of it...[but] perhaps [people] have written exhaustively on this topic, and their work did not reach us... The knowledge that has not come down to us is, after all, larger than the knowledge that has. Where are the sciences of the Persians...the Chaldaeans, the Syrians, the Babylonians...the Copts and their predecessors? The sciences of only one people, the Greeks, have come down to us...as for the sciences of others, nothing remains.”
Ibn Khaldun, 1332-1406 (as translated by Rosenthal)
omg thank u comrade new book to search for: Ibn Khaldun's Muqaddimah
To my knowledge, most of it from antiquity was lost. Whish is what Ibn Khaldun was speaking about, not the scholarship for the Islamic period.
To clarify, I did mean the pre-Islamic Persians, but it looks like you're right. There is evidence of engineering achievements but a lot was lost.
I see it the other way around, we managed to pass on civilization for our children for 90% of the history without writing it down
I don't think your title is grammatically correct. «very» starts with a consonant and therefore should be «Does it not pierce thy very heart?».
The one good thing about leddit is that someone else usually writes comments like this, meaning I don't feel compelled to.
I just want to know the lost and unrecorded meme that has so much potential
This was the peak. Every meme since this fella has been "thing good, thing bad".
And you are ultimately going to die as part of that 90% that won't be remembered for anything at all no matter how big of a deal you view yourself in any form function or manner.
Me too. It won't be so bad. Unless they check the hard drive. Oh buddy then we're historically remembered. Like, that's a lotta porn.
The thought of having your digital foot print live on forever was kind of neat, but most of it wasn't worth remembering or will probably get deleted after a few decades anyways. Future generations will ever know about the witty banter on yahoo answers.
Oh buddy then we're historically remembered. Like, that's a lotta porn.
That ain't special
