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“ everything you did doesn't really matter, but at least you enjoyed your time while it lasted” Problem with this statement is that what matters after someone
by m3kw9 4y ago
“ everything you did doesn't really matter, but at least you enjoyed your time while it lasted”
Problem with this statement is that what matters after someone does really doesn’t matter to that person after only before, also, on a long enough time span nothing will matter after. Does what most people did 3000 years ago matter? 10000? A million? I wouldn’t chase legacies
- varjag 4y agoSome people have tamed fire, invented wheel and overcame population bottlenecks. We don't know their names but their legacy is profound.
- layer8 4y agoAs a counterpoint, if they hadn’t done it, someone else would very likely have done it. Individual artworks would be a more unique legacy.
- varjag 4y agoQuite clearly if population bottleneck wasn't dealt with noone else would be left to do it.
- EUV071STR48 4y agoSure, someone else would have overcome it. Could have been just around the corner. You don't know.
- datavirtue 4y agoExactly. Inventions, knowledge, and other things are all inevitable--rediscovered and recreated from scratch each time. Art is our only unique contribution/feedback to the universe.
- varjag 4y agoIf you subscribe to determinism, all art pieces are also inevitable.
- krallja 4y ago> overcame population bottlenecks Their names were Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch.
- varjag 4y agoWas more thinking about the Toba eruption bottleneck 75k years back, but sure :)
- OJFord 4y agoI don't think people 'chasing legacies' are generally concerned with whether 'most people' are remembered, that's exactly the point isn't it? Standing out? A better 'problem' to point out might be the timespan over which few legacies that are remembered originate. 'I want to be the Tutankhamen of my time' is all very well, but there's no reason to think there will even be one.