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These types of things always give me a sad, disconnected feeling. What have we lost over the years in local culture? What traditions are forever gone?
by Loughla 3y ago
These types of things always give me a sad, disconnected feeling. What have we lost over the years in local culture? What traditions are forever gone?
- LordShredda 3y agoI'm sure some ancient egyptian has said the exact same phrase 8000 years ago
- dividedbyzero 3y agoBut back then their loss was more localized. the Ancient Egypt state came with a much-changed cultural base, but outside of the reach of that empire lots and lots of people kept their ice age customs. Nowadays much of the world is so uniform that cultural loss is often absolute and final. There are no more barbarians on the fringes of the Swiss state.
- civilitty 3y ago> These types of things always give me a sad, disconnected feeling... What traditions are forever gone? You're in luck, I've got an altar to sell you! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_sacrifice https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_sacrifice
- FerretFred 3y agoFunny you should mention that - try telling people you're a Pagan and you get a similar reaction.
- whatshisface 3y agoI saw a comment in another thread about people who write software for work "at 1AM, in their underwear." It called them heroes.