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> There's such a volume of lost plays. Athens held annual festivals where you'd have perhaps 20 tragedies and 5 comedies over 5 days[1]. That's just one city st
by tivert 2y ago
> There's such a volume of lost plays. Athens held annual festivals where you'd have perhaps 20 tragedies and 5 comedies over 5 days[1]. That's just one city state. Only 32 full plays survive.
There's such a volume of lost everything. Original masters taped over, archive fires, etc. Now we have new problems like obsolete formats and failing to pay your cloud bills (no more recovering something from an old tape forgotten in a warehouse).
In 2000 years, I wouldn't be surprised if no contemporary television managed to survive.
- AdmiralAsshat 2y agoAll that survives is The Love Boat, and future humans will fashion their entire understanding of ancient American history, culture, and religion around this show.
- whythre 2y agoThat honestly doesn’t sound too bad.
- mystified5016 2y agoCould be Jersey Shore...
- klodolph 2y agoAt least Jersey Shore is anthropological in nature
- flenserboy 2y ago"On The Tastes of Women in the Hamburger Kingdom: Doc as the Personification of Female Desire"
- jhbadger 2y agoThere is a satirical (paper) RPG called "Diana: Warrior Princess" that takes its inspiration from this idea. The idea is it is a representation of the idea of 20th century culture as viewed from a millennium into the future, focusing on Princess Di who is depicted as a great leader who fights against Hitler and has advisors like Charles Darwin. It's mocking how "historical fiction" often takes great liberties with fact and mixes people who never lived at the same time together.
- 082349872349872 2y agoUpon seeing "Warrior Princess" I had first been expecting they'd given DFS an ambiguous (sororal or sapphistical?) companion: In short, when I can tell you how I break the laws of gravity, And why my togs expose my intermammary concavity, And why my comrade changed her dress from one that fit more comfily To one that shows her omphalos (as cute as that of Omphale), And why the tale of Spartacus appears in Homer's version, And where we found examples of the genus Lycopersicon, And why this Grecian scenery looks more like the Antipodes, You'll say I'm twice the heroine of any in Euripides! [full text, footnoted: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~valkyrie/parody/xena.html https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~valkyrie/parody/xena.html ]
- pfdietz 2y agoI am reminded of the Perry Bible Fellowship strip "Now Showing". https://pbfcomics.com/comics/now-showing/ https://pbfcomics.com/comics/now-showing/
- narag 2y agoIn 2000 years, I wouldn't be surprised if no contemporary television managed to survive. Maybe most everything doesn't deserve to survive. Future humans will be busy enough living their lives, to learn an ever growing history of long dead ancestors. For them, it'll be mildly interesting to know that something was invented one thousand or ten thousand or a hundred thousand years ago, maybe the name of a chosen few relevant persons that first did something. But a complete record of everything that ever happened? I don't think so. Most TV and movies feel horriby dated in a few decades. Actually, I watch TV and movies done now that seem horribly dated.
- mmcdermott 2y agoI remember watching stuff during the pandemic with allusions to distancing or masking and thinking "I'm going to have to explain this to my grandchildren."
- bawolff 2y agoI imagine our grandchildren will think of covid the way we think of the spanish flu - as a minor historical footnote.
- qingcharles 2y agoWe lost the entirety of MySpace, which was a significant cultural moment. I know people who have almost zero photos of their entire childhoods because they were all digital and stored on computers/online and have been lost to the ether.
- adolph 2y ago> There's such a volume of lost everything. Original masters taped over . . . Michael Bond deftly develops this problem in Chapter 5, "Paddington and 'The Old Master'", of the masterpiece "A Bear Called Paddington." [0] Even a read of the linked synopsis brings to light the combinatorial Ship of Theseus nature of all human-interpretation. The pathos brings tears to my eyes: Paddington's failure to recreate a present scrambled by a search for the past is victorious-by-proxy, despite the judges viewing it upside down--just as an artist might draw. [1] 0. https://paddingtonbear.fandom.com/wiki/Paddington_and_%22The_Old_Master%22 https://paddingtonbear.fandom.com/wiki/Paddington_and_%22The... 1. https://www.allaboutdrawings.com/upside-down-drawing.html https://www.allaboutdrawings.com/upside-down-drawing.html