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Will be amazed if we’ve left something really groundbreaking behind. Yes it will be interesting to read the old texts but I’d say most ideas that matter persist
by bamboozled 3y ago
Will be amazed if we’ve left something really groundbreaking behind. Yes it will be interesting to read the old texts but I’d say most ideas that matter persisted until the present day.
It will still be a cool thing to watch and hopefully I’m wrong and the mysteries of the universe are written down somewhere else n an ancient scroll about to be uncovered.
- inglor_cz 3y ago"but I’d say most ideas that matter persisted until the present day." I wouldn't be so sure. All original texts from Classical Antiquity that we now have would fit onto one bookshelf today. That's not a lot for a civilization that spanned many centuries and several timezones, and cultivated both rhetoric and philosophy. The loss of knowledge caused by natural deterioration of papyrus in European climate must have been significant.
- bamboozled 3y agoHope you’re right because I feel like modern civilisation needs a bit of inspiration. There has to be more than ecological destruction and shareholder greed, right ?