Stamets [Mirror]@startrek.website to Memes@lemmy.ml · 2 years agoDoes it not pierce thine very heart?startrek.websiteimagemessage-square133fedilinkarrow-up11.14Karrow-down126
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minus-squaredudinax@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up40arrow-down8·2 years agoHere’s something even sadder. We only need history because human lives are so short.
minus-squaremadcaesar@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up30·2 years agoI mean… Even if you lived forever one person can’t remember everything
minus-squarecrypticthree@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·2 years agoI can’t even remember most of high school
minus-squaremadcaesar@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 years agoI can’t remember what I ate last week
minus-squareWhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 years agoThen we just wouldn’t ask that one person about history.
minus-squarekautau@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up15arrow-down1·2 years agoWhich, to bring some happiness into this, we are the only species that we know of that can record our history, no matter how short our lives are. So since most of our content produced now is tik tok, that will be our new history 😁😀😀😬😐😕😥😭
minus-squareGreenTeaRedFlag [any]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 years agoI don’t see that as sad. Also, even if we lived four hundred years we’d still need to write things down because we’d eventually die.
minus-squaresamus12345@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years agoUnless we were immortal and capable of remembering everything, we’d need history.
Here’s something even sadder. We only need history because human lives are so short.
I mean… Even if you lived forever one person can’t remember everything
I can’t even remember most of high school
I can’t remember what I ate last week
Then we just wouldn’t ask that one person about history.
Which, to bring some happiness into this, we are the only species that we know of that can record our history, no matter how short our lives are. So since most of our content produced now is tik tok, that will be our new history 😁😀😀😬😐😕😥😭
I don’t see that as sad. Also, even if we lived four hundred years we’d still need to write things down because we’d eventually die.
Unless we were immortal and capable of remembering everything, we’d need history.