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It could also imply we don't really know most of the mundane details and intricacies of past cultures. Tricks and techniques lost to time forever. Like the diff
by jobigoud 7y ago
It could also imply we don't really know most of the mundane details and intricacies of past cultures. Tricks and techniques lost to time forever. Like the difference between the many small things you experience when you are traveling somewhere compared to what's left in the pictures.
- reaperducer 7y agoNot so much "lost to time forever" as "locked away in physical media that makes them hard to access." We talk a lot about the seemingly infinite storage capabilities we have today, but all it takes is one terrorist attack, or one major SV company to go out of business and suddenly there's a massive hole in our cultural memory that cannot be recovered because everything we have is stored magnetically.
- WorldMaker 7y agoThere's also the "never written about because every one knew" common knowledge problem. It was a boring thing everyone knew, so why would they write about it?