Spot On - Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Spot On - Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
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This will be written one day when a traveler comes upon the ruins of Ohio.
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I don't get it. How are the archeology articles written, then?
Edit: I get it now.
Humans have this tendency of assuming everyone else is dumb. Whether that's their neighbor, a different generation, a foreign nation, different skin colors, different religions, different species or indeed extinct civilizations, pretty much everyone is assumed to be barbaric, until proven otherwise.
And so, yeah, it's usually a revelation like wow, they had calendars, they must have actually been smarter than we thought.
Got it. Thanks. And yup, I agree. I've always found silly that people are stunned that others in the past had complex knowledge. Like, bitch, the way you live now is thanks to the efforts of those in the past.
Imagine people 2000 years from today, using quantum tech for a lot of things, AI, transportation, etc, saying "whoa, can you believe it?! They already had hadron colliders in the 2000s! WHOA!" Then we'd be like, "bitch, all those things you're enjoying in your time is thanks to us. We are the ones who should be impressed, not the other way around. Like, you're still using microwaves to cook stuff?!?!?! Whoa!"
The opposite